A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 235
e building are set inthe straight walls of apolygonal enclosure, whilethe arcades of the apses,which are merely decora-374 ROUND CHURCH tive, and liave little weight to carry, standon a circular plan. The cttort to reconcilethe arcmle, and the polygonal plan whiclisuiteil it, with the dome, which… … 1 m i 1^1 zSt^ 1 1 ^:m . Mauia at Xi favourite covering of the Romans, and towhich the Eastern builders clung tenaciously, ledto the great invention of pendentives, by which ment in S. Sofia, became the leading influencein shaping Byzantine churches (see ByzantineArchitecture). These, nevertheless,…
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