How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 88
ingly used at this earlydate, while in the East they became one of the character-istic features of the architecture. The best known of all the Byzantine churches in Con-stantinople (Fig. 23), and a superb example of early domeconstruction, is St. Sophia, built in the sixth century,about two hundred… … FIG. 24—ST. MARK S, VENICE 65 HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE and St. Sophia is so beautiful and characteristic an ex-ample of it that I wish you to visit it in imaginationwith me and listen with what patience you can to anecessarily somewhat technical description of it. Thevalue of this is that it will…
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