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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 168

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ygonal type. The fundamental dis-tinction between the two early types is that the first (Fig. 44,a, b and c) was roofed with wood, the second (Fig. 44, d, e and/)surmounted by dome and vault. It cannot be claimed that the first type had any influenceupon the development of the Byzantine style… … d the central type. Composite plan. d, S. Costanza, Eome. e, Lateran Baptistery. /, S. George, Ezra. the basilica. Its fundamental features were: a circular (orpolygonal) wall enclosing two or more concentric colonnades,each of which — like the colonnades of the basilica — supporteda wall upon…

Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

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