. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CIIUUCII IIA(;iA .SOlllIA, COXSTAXTlNDlLK. ClirUCII OF S. TIlEODOltK, ATHENS, GREECE. XXIV. Santa Sophia in Constantinople at least in their present form, whateverfoundations of fifth century work theremay be enclosed within them. It appearsthen that the only striking external featureof the original building would be the slowrise and swell of the central cupola, led upto by the similar curves of the two halfcupolas covering the semicircular apses atthe northeast and southwest, and contrast-ing bo
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. CIIUUCII IIA(;iA .SOlllIA, COXSTAXTlNDlLK. ClirUCII OF S. TIlEODOltK, ATHENS, GREECE. XXIV. Santa Sophia in Constantinople at least in their present form, whateverfoundations of fifth century work theremay be enclosed within them. It appearsthen that the only striking external featureof the original building would be the slowrise and swell of the central cupola, led upto by the similar curves of the two halfcupolas covering the semicircular apses atthe northeast and southwest, and contrast-ing boldly with the huge flat wall beneaththe arch, on the north, west and magnificent conception of this inte-rior is well known to be unique among theByzantine churches; that is to say, no oneof them has this same remarkable systemof construction with four very open arches(one hundred foot span) supporting thislow-pitched cupola which is then buttressedin a way by the half cupolas on two sidesproducing the striking interior form quitevisible in the Plate XXIII. In other re-spects, however, this great church is ratherth
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