Horizon, Volume 5, Issue 8Horizon Publishers, 1963 |
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... dome . Set over all , seeming to contain and embrace in its simple unity all the diversity and multitude that lies below it , the dome is the Byzantine architectural form par excel- lence . And the dome of all Byzantine domes was that ...
... dome . Set over all , seeming to contain and embrace in its simple unity all the diversity and multitude that lies below it , the dome is the Byzantine architectural form par excel- lence . And the dome of all Byzantine domes was that ...
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... dome so light , as the contemporary his- torian Procopius wrote , that it " does not appear to rest upon a solid foundation , but to cover the place beneath as though it were suspended from heaven by the fabled golden chain . " This ...
... dome so light , as the contemporary his- torian Procopius wrote , that it " does not appear to rest upon a solid foundation , but to cover the place beneath as though it were suspended from heaven by the fabled golden chain . " This ...
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... dome of the Christian church , and was there linked with the majesty of Christ . It was his image , as Christ Pantocrator , the All - Ruler , that animated the space of the dome . Situated at the central point of the earthly and ...
... dome of the Christian church , and was there linked with the majesty of Christ . It was his image , as Christ Pantocrator , the All - Ruler , that animated the space of the dome . Situated at the central point of the earthly and ...
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