A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 117
LEE PORCH. Same as Galilee, in therestricted sense ^nvcii above. The term origi-nated in the ohl habit of calling many halls,such as .sacristies, outside chapels, rooms in thetrifi>ri\un, etc., by the name of galilee, whichcalled for the further discrimination conveyeilby tiic conipom.d term.… … ilti, ealUMl Lou-if (ii IJiifl.ul..;•j.k (if the Vatican. Tliis wiile-s of thirteen vaultod squares,each vault having fuur priucipal paintings of bibli- cmI siil)jeola. The in.s|>ir.ili..ii fur the iinaiiKeiiuntof llie paintings came hugely from the discovery inKapliaels time of ancient Koniaii…
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