Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 173
rofile of the dome. It can hardly be doubted that the typicalByzantine scheme (S. Vitale) was also strongly influenced bythis example, although one of its features — the semicircularrecesses and storied galleries — is to be referred more ex-pressly to the development of the niche decoration… … George, Ezra, Syria. THE CENTRAL TYPE— Composite Plan 145 development of S. Vitale, — under the influence, it is alwaysnecessary to remember, of distinctive Byzantine principles ofconstruction. S. Vitale in Kavenna was erected during the reign of Jus-tinian (begun in 526 and completed in 547). It…
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