How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 90
half-domes. On the sides are short barrel-vaults, extendingto the side walls. The half-domes are each penetratedby three smaller half-domes, the central one at the frontcovering the entrance, and that at the rear the apse, orrecess for the altar. The floor-plan is thus in the shapeof a Greek or… … FIG. 25—ROMAN ARCH WITH PEDIMENT HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE port a gallery for the women worshippers—another featureof the Greek church which shows the Eastern influence. The walls we see gorgeously decorated with slabs ofcolored marble, and the insides of the domes are coveredsolidly with gold…
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