The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 260
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… … Fig. 89.—Cathedral of St. Mark, Venice. that the French owe the examples of Byzantine archi-tecture which appear in the very centre of theircountry, such as the Church of St.-Front, at Peri-gueux, and St.-Pierre, at Angouleme, which stand asconnecting links between Byzantine and…
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