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. Yitale, however, represents the consummation of the roundtype of… … Fig. 48. — Interior of S. Vitale, Eavenna. Sixth century. THE CEyTRAL TYPE—Cross-shaped Plan 147 THE DOME ON A SQUARE BASECROSS-SHAPED 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,…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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