Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 281
lecture xvi.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 251 tion, described it, " as if suspended by a chain from heaven." … Fig. 424.— Plan, St. Sophia, Constantinople. {From Fergusson.') The dome is lighted by forty small windows, which pierce it immediately above the cornice which crowns its pendentives, and which, by subdividing its lower
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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