File:Floor plan of St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice (1888) (14761052681).jpg

Identifier: architectureclas00smit (find matches)
Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 Slater, John, 1847-1924
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter, Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
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tla. ICI.—San Vitale at Kavessa. Lokgitudimal Section BTZANTINB. 217 Yen ice. This cathedral was built between the years977-1071, and, it is said, according to a design obtainedfrom Constantinople. It has since been altered in ex-ternal appearance by the erection of bulbous domical roofsover its domes, and by additions of florid Gothic character;but, disregarding these, we have alike in plan, structure,and ornament, a Byzantine church of the first class. The ground-plan of St. Marks (Fig. 162) presents aGreek cross, i.e. one in which all the arms are equal, and
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l.G. 1C2.—Plan op St. Marks at Texice. it is roofed by five principal domes, one at the crossingand one over each of the four limbs of the cross. Aisles ata low level, and covered by a series of small flat domes, inlieu of vaulting, fill up the angles between the arms of thecross, so as to make the outline of the plan nearly square. 218 CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE. The rich colouring of St. Marks, due to a profuse employ-ment of mosaics and of the most costly marbles, and thesplendid effects produced by the mode of introducinglight, which is admitted much as at Santa Sophia, areperhaps its greatest charm; but there is beauty in everyaspect of its interior which has furnished a fit theme forthe pen of the most eloquent writer on art and architectureof the present or perhaps of any day. Irom Venice the influence of Byzantine art spreadto a small extent in North Italy ; in that city herself aswell as in neighbouring towns, such as Padua, buildingsand fragments of buildings exhibiting the ch

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