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Diagram of a dome atop a rectangular structure, highlighting the curved triangular pendentives that transition from the square base to support the circular dome, as used in Hagia Sophia.
Plate 13: Dome of the Baptistery of the Orthodox, Ravenna, c. 450
Interior showing dome on pendentives, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus, completed 537.
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