The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 248
225 Anthemius of Tralles was the architect, assistedby Isidorus of Miletus, and though Anthemius cannot be said to have invented the pendentive system,he was the first to de-velop and use penden-tives on so large ascale. The distribution ofSta. Sophia (Fig. 82) isvery simple in planthough… … Fig. 82.—Plan of Sta. Sophia,Constantinople. between the arches and carry a huge, flat, centraldome, thereby bringing the climax of the design inthe middle instead of at the east end (Plate XXVI). Concerning this dome Procopius wrote: Fromits lightness ... it does not appear to rest upon asolid…
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