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Identifier: cu31924014078004 (find matches)
Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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GROUND-PLAN OF THE CHURCH OF S. SOPHIA The Nave is 300 by 100 Feet was turned into a Mohammedan mosque, but the outlines ofthe figures can be dimly distinguished even now under thethin coating of lime. At the four pendentives of the dome,just above the piers, are figures of seraphim with six wings: with twain they covered their heads, with twain they cov-ered their feet, and with twain they did fly. Their faceshave been concealed by four shields, on which are inscribedtexts from the Koran. The floor is paved with a rich mosaicof marbles. Various heathen temples were despoiled to sup-ply the columns, which were of coloured marbles that vied inrichness with the mosaics of the walls and the pavement.The capitals are of a purely Byzantine type. They have 146 A SHORT HISTORY OF ART
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