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Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)

Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 289

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lecture xvii.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 257 The Church of the Holy Theotokos, or of the Mother of God, is of much later date. The church proper has but a single dome of any importance, though there are several others over the nar- thex (Fig. 428). This dome covers the intersection of two barrel… … Fig. .429.— Section, Church of the Holy Theotokos. is very elegant, differing in date, it is probable, but little from that at St. Mark's at Venice. Others do not differ sufficiently from these types to make it worth while here to describe them. It may, however, be mentioned that in the later Greek…

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