The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 245
Tar-tars, mismanagement,and the enmity of Na-ture, the Byzantineshave left one of thefinest constructive in-ventions recorded inarchitectural history—namely, the Penden-tive system. Beinggreat, it is also simple,and merely consists inplacing a circular dome upon a square, the diameterof the circle… … Fig. 81.—Fendentive system in Byzan-tine domes. SANTA SOPHIA. 223 The best example of this, and the most compre-hensive of the Byzantine style, is in the Church ofSta. Sophia or Divine Wisdom (Plate XXVI), be-gun by Justinian in 532 a. d. on the site of a basilicaof the same name erected by…
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