The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 255
Fig. 85.—Church of St. Nicodemus at Athens. vaults, whose ends were afterward treated as semi-circular pediments, as in the Church of Monetes- 232 THE BYZANTIXE STYLE. Koras (Home of the Virgin) in Armenia, whosefacade probably suggested that of the sumptuousCathedral of St. Mark at Venice. … FlG. 86.—Church of St. Theodore at Alliens. The interior decorations of the second periodwere much the same as those of the first, and included B YZANTINE MOSAICS. 233 costly marbles, frescoes, and mosaics of small preciousstones or cubes of crystal. The manner of making gold mosaic was…
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