. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CUAI-KL, .NOW A MILIUM, AT ., (MKUUi IIK KT MUSKLLE) XXVI. Smaller Greek and Eastern Churches and three smaller chapels are all completedby the carrying up of just such cupolasabove these central divisions. Now thesebuildings are all very small. The cupolasare twenty-five feet, eighteen feet, sixteenfeet wide, within: St. Theodores littleshrine would not hold a hundred worship-pers. It is easy to see that the exterior de-sign with the high cupola was worked outfor these small buildings; but it is
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CUAI-KL, .NOW A MILIUM, AT ., (MKUUi IIK KT MUSKLLE) XXVI. Smaller Greek and Eastern Churches and three smaller chapels are all completedby the carrying up of just such cupolasabove these central divisions. Now thesebuildings are all very small. The cupolasare twenty-five feet, eighteen feet, sixteenfeet wide, within: St. Theodores littleshrine would not hold a hundred worship-pers. It is easy to see that the exterior de-sign with the high cupola was worked outfor these small buildings; but it is easy tosee also that the general plan is capable ofnobler exterior treatment. If, therefore,there should ever be an attempt made tobuild in modern Europe in the Byzantinestyle, it will be modified, inevitably, bythis possibility, and by the obvious neces- ?,sity of satisfying the general demand for a i^splendid outside. The recently built ca-thedral in London, spoken of below inChapter X, is an instance of this. Still, the glory of the Byzantine stylemust be found in its in
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