Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 175
and of permitting the inclusion of the whole room within aquadrangular wall. This shows the strong tendency in theByzantine architecture of that time to accommodate the dometo the longitudinal room which was required by the ritual.S. Vitale, however, represents the consummation of the roundtype of… … THE CENTRAL TYPE—Cross-shaped Flan 147 THE DOME ON A SQUARE BASECROSS-SB A PBD PLAN Like the so-called transept of the basilica, the earliest exam-ples in Christian architecture of a cross-shaped plan are to bereferred to pagan prototypes, though in both cases the Chris-tian symbolism furnished the…
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