Mediæval art, from the peace of the church to the eve of the renaissance, 312-1350 (1904)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Duckworth and co.: New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 92
floor laidto symbolise the four Paradise streams, the Ambo, theFountain of the Atrium, &c., must apply to the churchas it was before the dome fell in the last quarter of thetenth century. Our own R. Diceto, c. 1180, gives aversion of this text in his history. THE HOLY APOSTLES 47 While Sta.… … Fig. 27. Approximate plan of the church of theHoly Apostles, Constantinople. The central dome, he says, was pierced with windows, thesanctuary being beneath this, at the middle point of thechurch. In 1896 there was discovered in a convent onMount Athos a poem describing this church, written…
Art, Medieval
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