A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 235
the building are set inthe straight walls of apolygonal enclosure, whilethe arcades of the apses,which are merely decora-:;:4 ROUND CHURCH tive, and have little weight to carry, standon a circular [ilan. The effort to reconcilethe arcade, and the polygonal plan whichsuited it, with the dome, which… … LS^^sffiS^ .^;iji^AC»;»a Round Church: S. Maria at Nocrua: skf, Pt.an. favourite covering of the Komans, 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…
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