Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York & London. Harper & Bros · leaf 60
A-B-C OF ARCHITECTURE a few modified examples are still to be found. The Greeks of the Classic period insisted that the arch “ never slept,” and therefore refused to use this form in their buildings; but the later Greeks, under the dominance of the Empire of the East, not only employed … the arch in their structural forms, but they made the dome a characteristic feature of their style. They used the Grecian cross for the plan, and covered not only the inter- sections of the arms of the cross with domes, but each leg of the cross as well; and then, influenced by the nearness of that…
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