A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 236
the Roman thernue.This is true not only of the massive piers andbuttresses sustaining the heavy vaults, of theByzantine predilection for circular halls and semi-circular apses, of the arrangement of narthex andatrium in front of the church, and of tlie greatsemicircular clerestory windows over the… … o IS !o 7f /oo LuilI I I L_J Byzantine Architkcturk: Church of S. Sophia (Plan) at Constantinople; as Rebuilt, 5;W AND 558. where. These buildings were never surpassed,nor indeed equalled, by the later productions ofthe style, which were chiefly churches of smallsize, richly decorated internally…
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