A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . f tlie region between tlie Dneister and the mouth of theDanube, on theBlaek Sea, for-merly a provinceof the TurkishEmpire, andnowforming ofthe kingdom ofRdumania. Thisregion is almost MOMENT which is strongly Byzantine in character, andwhich jseenis to be a result uf Moldavian influ-ences. A curious use of the separate bell toweris founil in certain towns of this region. Insome cases, even late neoclassic churches aretreated in this way, and the result is a veryinteresting series of square towers of g
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . f tlie region between tlie Dneister and the mouth of theDanube, on theBlaek Sea, for-merly a provinceof the TurkishEmpire, andnowforming ofthe kingdom ofRdumania. Thisregion is almost MOMENT which is strongly Byzantine in character, andwhich jseenis to be a result uf Moldavian influ-ences. A curious use of the separate bell toweris founil in certain towns of this region. Insome cases, even late neoclassic churches aretreated in this way, and the result is a veryinteresting series of square towers of generallyclassic design. fieside the buildings of , wniHiciichurches, some of great age, in thisregion. (Cuts, coLs, 919, 920; 9l1.) Ronistiirfer, Die Muhlauisrh - Ilij^antinischeBanltnist. MOLDING. Same as Moulding. MOLE. Any massive structure. A wordused very loosely, and generally iu a poeticalsense. The Hadrian Mole, the mausoleumof Hadrian at Rome, now Castel S. term is hardly used with exactness exceptfor a dike, jetty, pier, or quay. (Comiiare Molo.). Moldavia, Architecture of :KiG. 1. — Church at Jassy, C ALLED BiSERICA TREI ERARHI. Plan. Moldavia, Architecture of: Fio. 2. — Biserica Trei ekarhi IN Jassv. (See Fir,. 1.) architect, and WTiter wholly Byzantine in the character of its art, theearlier work being directly derived from the mod-els existing in the Byzantine Empire, and thelater buihlings marked by an influence similarto that of Russia. The to this arein the occasional instances of detail of Westerncharacter, Romanesque, or Gothic ; or a latetransition Gothic reminding one of the fifteentlicentmy architecture of Spain. The churcheswith cupolas raised on high drums are of verygreat interest. The architectiire which is known as Molda-vian s])ieads a little way beyond the border,and influences the Russian provinces of Bessa-rabia and Curson; thus, at Odessa, is a church917 MOLLER, GEORG; on art. Moller was court architect
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