The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 253
ndly, a square having a largecupola over the centre, and a dome at each cornerto withstand the thrusts of the pendentives. Other characteristics of the second period were apreference in many places for the Latin-cross insteadof the Greek-cross arrangement within a square ; theuse of barrel vaults ;… … Fig. 84.—Elevation of Church of Theotocos. From LenoirsArchitecture Monastique. Hitherto the vaulting of this feature had beensomewhat flat, and had frankly asserted its shape onthe outside with no screen whatsoever, s;ive a cover-ing of copper or other metal; now, on the contrary,the dome was made…
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