Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 165
d by fire, it re-ceived through several centuriesadditions not always Byzantine incharacter. Yet it was mainly thework of Byzantine builders, whocopied most probably the churchof the Apostles at Constantinople,built by Justinian. The picturesque but wholly unstructuraluse of columns in the entrance… … FIG. 78. — PLAN OF ST. MARKs,VENICE. BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. 133 Nothing could well be conceived more irrational, fromastructural point of view, than the accumulation of columnsin the entrance-arches ; but the total effect is so pictur-esque and so rich in color, that its architectural defectsare…
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