. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. broad barrel vaults, whoseaxes are in a line with the centre of the domes respectively ; andthese vaults, together with the transverse arches which border thedomes to the east and west, serve as efficient buttresses, in the onecase to support the thrust of the dome, in the other to steady and re-inforce its supports. The church of Cas-saba in Lycia has a disposition exactlysimilar to St. Irene, except that it has asingle dome instead of two. (Fig. 144.)The variation in plan among the Byz-antine ch
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. broad barrel vaults, whoseaxes are in a line with the centre of the domes respectively ; andthese vaults, together with the transverse arches which border thedomes to the east and west, serve as efficient buttresses, in the onecase to support the thrust of the dome, in the other to steady and re-inforce its supports. The church of Cas-saba in Lycia has a disposition exactlysimilar to St. Irene, except that it has asingle dome instead of two. (Fig. 144.)The variation in plan among the Byz-antine churches is well illus- varioustrated by the four principal gy^^aMinechurches of Thessalonica: St. , a five-aisled basilica, datingfrom the beginning of the fifth century;St. George, a circle with massive wallslightened by square niches, and with along projecting apsidal bema probablyof later date ; S. Sofia, probably contemporary with S. Sofia atConstantinople, a square with small central dome, and three smallapses projecting from one side; and St. Elias, a. d. 1012, a square. Fig. 145. IS. kjotia, Thessalonica. liUO AHCHITECTrUK IN ITALY
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