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 140
136 ARCHITECTURE in pairs, rises a central part covered by a dome; this and the vault of the circular aisle were encrusted with mosaics, some of which remain. The walls were sheeted over with thin marble and porphyry, and the drum of the dome was covered with elaborate devices in opus sectile^… … about 400 A.D. On it appears a church, as a symbol of Jerusalem, and this church has two high round towers attached to it ; the whole looks like a Romanesque church of the twelfth century (fig. 24). There is a somewhat similar representation on a panel of the beauti- ful doors of Santa Sabina,…
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