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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w H-1 o H< OU o •Si CH. VI) S. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE 97 forty lights around the springing, and rising to theheight of 180 ft. from the floor. The dome is constructed with ribs of brick converging Con-on a ring in the centre, and springing from forty piers ofThe°°set on radiating lines (Fig. 25), the panels between ^°^^rib and rib being also of brick. The outside is coveredwith lead. It is not evident how thick this brickworkbut it obviously amounts only to a frail shell in is /pFE^r.
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aj-Windows ore In simpCegCoiTtf h-icaC p atkfne .Some ii.m. _^ ami) pfoin^oK*. J\iivd!\/ Fig. 25. comparison with the massive domes of old Rome, castas it were in solid concrete, almost making them mono-lithic. That it has more than once^ had to be repairedis not wonderful, and its present condition is againcausing alarm. ^ Salzenberg says the thickness at the crown where pierced for the lampchain is 24 inches. 2 It was extensively repaired by Basil I in the 9th century, and thewestern semi-dome and arch were thrown down by an earthquake in 975 andrebuilt in six years by Basil II. J. A. 7 98 S. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE (ch. vi On reaching the dome one finds the ribs and panelsand also the recesses of the windows that surround thebase to be still covered to a great extent with the originalmosaic, a good deal patched with painted plaster, andThe daubed over with colour wash. In the central circle the mosaics f^g^^YQ mosaic probably still remains behind the modernmask : but for the rest of

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