A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 468
nd appropriateness to the design which has probably never been sur-passed. A single dome of the area of the central and two semi-domeswould not have appeared nearly so large, and would have overj)oweredeverything else in the building. As it is, the eye wanders upwardsfrom the large arcades of the… … 448 BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. Part II. on to the larger, and the whole culminates in the great central roof.Nothing, probably, so artistic has been done on the same scale before•or since. In these arrangements Sta. Sophia seems to stand alone. If, however, the proportions of this church are…
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