A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 529
from Tartar designs. Nothing * The first bay, as shown on plan (Woodcut No. 382), is the narthex; the fivedomes come beyond it. 494 IlUSSIA:^T ARCHITECTURE. Part II. like it exists to the westward. It more resembles some Easternpagoda of modern date than any European structure, and in factmust be… … Cologne to the Romanesque. The central spire, for instance, is theform into which the Russians had during five centuries been graduallychanging the straight-lined dome of the Armenians. The eight othersare the Byzantine domes converted by degrees into the bulb-Hke formswhich the Tartars practised…
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