. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ular, and the minorparts ranged around it on every side ; theyare like it in having drawn their construc-tional character from the vaulted buildingsof Persia and the neighboring lands. Thusthe church of St. Theodore at Athens, ofwhich the plan is given on page 86,though it has three apses turned towardsthe east and a narthex at the west end, isstill a building with a dominant central fea-ture around which other parts are XXIV shows this plainly, for noth-ing can be more remote from the basil-ica type
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ular, and the minorparts ranged around it on every side ; theyare like it in having drawn their construc-tional character from the vaulted buildingsof Persia and the neighboring lands. Thusthe church of St. Theodore at Athens, ofwhich the plan is given on page 86,though it has three apses turned towardsthe east and a narthex at the west end, isstill a building with a dominant central fea-ture around which other parts are XXIV shows this plainly, for noth-ing can be more remote from the basil-ica type than the group here shown. Thecupola is evidently not complete—not afully organized design—it has been roofedas cheaply as possible and at as low a levelas the windows would allow: for thesewindows replace the great light-openingsof the western clearstory. In Moldaviaand in the southern provinces of Russiathese cupolas are found by hundreds withtheir design fairly well worked out. PlateXXV shows a monastery in the region of theCaucasus, in which the principal church[90 1.
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