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... dome . Through the windows ringing the base of the dome , and in the lunettes beneath , the sun pours into the building , lighting up the marble and the mosaics which sparkle everywhere . The marble pillars are crowned with rich ...
... dome . Through the windows ringing the base of the dome , and in the lunettes beneath , the sun pours into the building , lighting up the marble and the mosaics which sparkle everywhere . The marble pillars are crowned with rich ...
Page 174
... domes and apses which first the Greeks and then the Romans had erected there . Next it invaded the whole of Lower ... dome seems to have had Byzantine antecedents . Another fine . example , the Great Mosque at Damascus , with its ...
... domes and apses which first the Greeks and then the Romans had erected there . Next it invaded the whole of Lower ... dome seems to have had Byzantine antecedents . Another fine . example , the Great Mosque at Damascus , with its ...
Page 177
... dome built on a wooden skeleton . The second distinctive feature of the mosque lies in the variation in decoration . A mosque is essentially an unfurnished building . It has no altars , no statues , no pictures of the Deity or the ...
... dome built on a wooden skeleton . The second distinctive feature of the mosque lies in the variation in decoration . A mosque is essentially an unfurnished building . It has no altars , no statues , no pictures of the Deity or the ...
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18th century abbey abstract Alte Pinakothek apse arches architect architecture artistic baptistry Baroque basilica became bronze building built Byzantine Byzantine art Caravaggio carved cathedral centre century B.C. chapel characteristic Christian church civilisation classical colour columns complete composition contrast Cubism culture decoration detail dome dominated dynamic Dynasty Etruscan Europe example expression Expressionism façade famous figures Flemish Florence forms France French frescoes geometric German gestures Giovanni Gothic Greek human Impressionism influence inspired interior International Gothic Islamic Italian Italy Jeu de Paume Kunsthistorisches Museum landscape later light London Louvre Madonna Madrid Mannerist Maria Milan Modern Art monumental mosaics motifs movement Munich Museum Mycenae National Gallery nave Neo-classicism Opposite original ornamental painter painting palace Palazzo Paris period portrait Prado realism reality Renaissance rhythms Roman Romanesque Romanesque art Rome scenes sculpture space statue stone structure style stylised temple tion Titian tomb tradition Uffizi vault Venetian Venice Virgin walls