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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 430

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tine buildings of (Jreeceand otlier parts of the Levant, and tlio.se imita-tions of the Byzantine style which constitute alarge part of Eussiau architecture, have cupohusof which the drums arc singularly lofty, andare pierced with elaborate .systems of windows,while the cupola jiroper or rounded… … ( I IdLA That nf S. Petfrs i-limrh at Unmc ; seen fromthe northwest, which is in tliis chnrch that wliiclithe northeast would be in a church if the usualorientation were Iolloweil. The cu])ola. the designof which is ascribed li> .Michelaui;elo. owes nnicli.it is probable, to the work of Ni^nola.…

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