Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 150
146 ARCHITECTURE are grouped, parts are subordinated one to another, jambs and arches are formed into a series of recesses. Already, in early Byzantine and Syrian works, the new idea is seen in operation, the colonnade of the atrium of Santa Sophia was cast into groups of three pillars between… … Fig. 31. these rise two little arches, under the main arch which passes from pier to pier. It might be a Romanesque work of the twelfth century, but it is of the sixth century (fig. 31). Another church in the same city had the remarkable plan shown in Fig. 32. The west front of a church built at…
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