The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 259
, causinga curious inter-change of liirhtand shade, theiroutline stronglydefined by a crest-ins: of elaboratesculpture. All thearches above andbelow are en-riched with mo-saics of exquisiteworkmanship. The interior is incrusted with orna-ments like those of Sta. Sophia, and in this respect isequal… … Fig. S3.—Plan of Cathedral of St. Mark,Venice. BYZANTINE CHURCHES IN FRANCE. 237 to a centre. Hence, the spaces between the archesare filled with a collection of small superimposedarches, which lack the dignity of the bold curvingsweeps in Sta. Sophia. In the second half of the eleventh century a…
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