Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 272
. As it happens, however, we have but few ancient examples of so strict an adherence to principle ; though in modern works they are more fre- quent. The purest specimen I know (if I judge rightly from drawings) is the dome of the little church of SS. Nasario and Celso, at Ravenna, the Mausoleum of… … Fig. 410. has the effect of emphasising the first completed course of stones, and perhaps even of strengthening it, and it has the fur- ther effect of defining the spherical triangles between the arches which, when thus gifted with a separate ex- istence, receive the name of " pen- dentives" whence…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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