A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 241
he Roman thermte.This is true not only of the massive piers andInittresses sustaining the heavy vaults, of theByzantine jjredilection for circular halls and semi-circular apses, of the arrangement of narthex andatrium in front of the church, and of the greatsemicircular clerestory windows over the… … Byzantine Akchitecture: Church of S. Sophia (Plan) .\t Constantinople; as Rebuilt, 538 AND 558. where. These buildings were never surpassed,nor indeed eciualled, by the later proiluctions ofthe style, which were chiefly Ihurches of smallsize, richly decorated internally with mosaics orfrescoes, but…
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