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 209
podosis. 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 1 This is the conventional, if questionable, view. The scarcity of wood in Egypt wouldseem to offer a sufficient explanation… … 111. 62. — Plau of Dair-as-Suriaiii. (From Butler) 88 COPTIC VAULTS at Dair-al-Malak there is known no instance of an atrium in aCoptic church.^ The most remarkable development of Coptic art is foundin the desert monasteries of the Wady Natrun valley. In thesesolitudes where no wood could be…
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