Style
Byzantine and Byzantine Revival
The dome as the centre: domes on pendentives over a square or cross-in-square plan, round arches, brick with stone bands, gold-ground mosaics. The tradition still shapes many Eastern Orthodox buildings built today.
- When
- Byzantine: 500s to 1400s; Revival: c. 1880s to 1930s
- Where
- The eastern Mediterranean; the Revival in Europe and North America
- Tell it apart
- Romanesque Revival also uses round arches but is built around a long nave and towers, not a central dome.
The tells
- One or more domes as the main feature
- A centralised, square or cross-in-square plan
- Gold-ground mosaics on domes and apses
- Round arches; brick striped with stone
- Small domes clustered around a larger one