. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. 111. 62. — Plan of Dair-as-Suriaui. (From Butler) 88 COPTIC VAULTS at Dair-al-Malak there is known no instance of an atrium in aCoptic cliurch. The most remarkable development of Coptic art is foundin the desert monasteries of the Wady Natrun valley. In thesesolitudes where no wood could be obtained the churches must, per-force, be built entirely of stone. Consequently, the roof was con-structed of barrel vaults and domes. These barrel vaults show. sc^ r ? —R- III. 63. — Plan of Anba Bishoi. (
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. 111. 62. — Plan of Dair-as-Suriaui. (From Butler) 88 COPTIC VAULTS at Dair-al-Malak there is known no instance of an atrium in aCoptic cliurch. The most remarkable development of Coptic art is foundin the desert monasteries of the Wady Natrun valley. In thesesolitudes where no wood could be obtained the churches must, per-force, be built entirely of stone. Consequently, the roof was con-structed of barrel vaults and domes. These barrel vaults show. sc^ r ? —R- III. 63. — Plan of Anba Bishoi. (From Butler) the systematic employment of the pointed arch, and in at leastone instance,- were provided with ribs regularly profiled. Thus,here again do we find the Early Christians anticipating theRomanesque of the south of France, and one is almost tempted tobelieve that the Coptic pointed arch may have been adopted bythe Arabs from the Egyptians, and not newly discovered by the .\ fact sadly militating against the prevalent theory which derives the court of the Mo-hammedan mosque from the Coptic Dair-al-Baramus. 8!) THE EARLY CHRISTIAN STYLE former as is generally held; and that thence by the agency ofthe Pilgrims and the Crusades it passed into Occidental it seems more reasonable to suppose that we are here deal-ing merely with an example of coincidence. Like causes ledto like results. A pointed arch is at once stronger and morebeautiful than a round one — a fact which happened to be dis-covered independently
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