A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 235
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,… … RoPND Church : Ais-la-Chapklle : see Plans. the dome could be hung even over a squareplan, leaving the floor under it unob.stnicted,except by four piers at the corners of theS(mare, and opening vaster areas of interior square or nearly square plan prevails in them,with a central dome, are intended…
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