Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. (1915)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- [from old catalog] · Chicago, Ill., Printed by F. J. Drake & co. · leaf 245
nt as it did in the other coun-tries where Mahometanism was the prevailing creed. 238 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE Owing to this imitation, of existing Byzantine forms, ofwhich the Church of Sta. Sophia was the highest model,and to the employment of the materials such as pillars,&c., which were… … Fig. 142. FACADE OP THE SULTAN AHMED MOSQUE AT CON-STANTINOPLE. the introduction of inscriptions instead of sculpture,which is common to all Mahometan buildings, and finallyin the addition of slender minarets and the indispensablefore court. . The most splendid of all the mosques of Constanti-nople…
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