A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 73
Pendant, 17th Centurt, at Schloss Kalmar,Sweden. of a horizontal circle or a straight line, in orderthat a square or polygonal room may be coveredby a cupola of circular plan or having moresides than the room. The simplest and typical … Pendentive, Fig. I. form is the Byzantine, or spherical, pendentive.Fig. 1, the surface of which is part of a sphere
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