A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 230
Bil. - ^ ■.. _;_ Round Church: S. Maria at No^ ki; \ ; see Plan. favourite covering of the Romans, and towhich the Eastern builders clung tenaciously, ledto the great invention of pendentives, by whieh ment in S. Sofia, became the leading influencein shaping Byzantine churches (see… … Round Church: Aix-la-Chapellk : see Pl.ins. the dome could be hung even over a squareplan, leaving the floor under it unobstructed,except by four piers at the comers of thesquare, and opening vaster areas of interior375 square or nearly square plan prevails in them,with a central dome, are intended…
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