Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 240
III. 7-2.— Plan of Il:i>;i(.s lia.cl.os, (■(■iiMaiitinoplc. (From Ilil^licr) THE PROBLEM OF PENDENTIVES bonds, far from l)cing structural, project almost to the externalwall and completely ruin aisle and gallery. Still the variedperspectives and charm of contrasted surface attained in thedesign… … III. 73. — Kan of S. Vitale of Ravenna. (From Dehio) The problem of placing a spherical dome on a polygonalbuilding was no new one. In the West, the Romans had attackedit in one of the octagonal halls of the enclosure at CaracallasBaths, in the so-called temple of ^Minerva Medica, and else-where.…
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