A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 235
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… … Round Church; Aix-la-Chapri.le; see Plans. the dome could be hung even over a sipiareplan, leaving the floor under it unobstructed,except by four piers at the corners of thesquare, and opening vaster areas of interior.375 s(piarc or nearly .si|uare ])lau prevails in them,with a central dome, are…
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