Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 211
osis. In some of the earlier churchesthese apses were placed in a trefoil, instead of being alligned.^It is a remarkable fact that with the single exception of the church This is the conventional, if questionable, view. The scarcity of wood in Egypt wouldseem to offer a sufficient explanation of… … 111. 62. — Plan of Dair-as-Suriaui. (From Butler) 88 COPTIC VAULTS at Dair-al-Malak there is known no instance of an atrium in aCoptic cliurch. The most remarkable development of Coptic art is foundin the desert monasteries of the Wady Natrun valley. In thesesolitudes where no wood could be…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture
Internet Archive · University of Connecticut Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
