Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 204
giie) CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SYRIA these churches developed one feature pecuHar to themselvesand of the highest interest: that curious decoration of the ex-terior of the apse with colonnettes and corbel-tables (111. 58),presaging so strangely Romanesque France. The second type of church, which is… … III. 59. — Plan of Chapel at Rbeah. (From Butler) massive piers supporting great arches. The aisles were cov-ered with the Syrian vault of the South, and the nave, thoughstill roofed in wood, was, in at least one instance,* spanned bygreat transverse arches. Most remarkable of all, the fa9adewas…
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