Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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square, with the three apses projectedeastwards. The dome springs from pendentives; it is not how- The domeever a true circle, but rather a square with the corners dentnSrounded off, so that the pendentives are small and onlyimperfectly developed. On the outside the square baseof the dome is carried some way up the curve of thehemisphere, and forms a drum pierced with windows,and at the angles are diagonal buttresses running backto the shell of the cupola (Fig. 18). All this looks asif the architect were attempting a form of constructionwith which he was not familiar, and this disposes of thetradition that the church was built by Anthemius, freshfrom the triumphant construction of the other S. Sophiaat Constantinople. The cathedral of Salonica is nodoubt the older of the two, though perhaps not bymuch. 74 SALONICA (CH. V s. Sophia The screen walls in the transepts have four marble columns with blown leaf capitals, and in these it isinteresting to observe the survival of the Corinthian
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Fig. 18. caulicoli, which are lost in that at S. Demetrius (Plate III).Another capital of a column in the north-west of thenave has a beautiful veil of Byzantine foliage pierced CH. v) SALONICA 75 and undercut, which is now unfortunately a good deal s. SopWadamaged. S. Sophia is remarkable for its mosaics, which have Theonly lately been fully exposed, and have provoked much °^^*^^discussion among archaeologists. In 1890 the churchwas seriously injured by a fire, and remained in a half-ruined state till 1908 when the French Governmentcommissioned M. Le Tourneau to examine and reporton the Byzantine monuments at Salonica. Since thenthe restoration of the church has been undertaken bythe Ottoman Government, and is now approaching com-pletion. The mosaics of the dome were illustrated byM. Texier in 1864, but his reproductions are veryconventional and give little idea of the original. M. LeTourneau had the advantage of examining them fromscaffolding during the process of cleaning and expo

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