The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 258
dogePietro Orseolo. Though erected at a time when theEastern Empire had greatly declined, the friendly in-tercourse and maritime relations between Venice andthe Orient were such that the architects had everyopportunity to study Sta. Sophia during the periodof its integrity and magnificence and… … Plate XXVII.—Interior of San Vitale at Ravenna. 236 THE BYZAXTEXE STYLE. with a cupola of smaller size, necklaced with a rowof small, round-headed windows. A vaulted atrium or narthex crested by a balus-trade precedes the building and is entered by five doorways orna-mented with col-umns of…
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