03-01-2026, 01:23 AM
(02-01-2026, 11:56 PM)nablator wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This one is dated ca. 1546:
Those are typical Western European or Mediterranean domes, just hemispheres. The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "onion" domes instead bulged out, so that they were quite a bit wider than the tower below; and their top was pointy, rather than round.
That article suggests that the Russians may have borrowed the style from India or Persia.
St. Basil in Moscow dates from the 1500s, so the style must have been well established by the 1400s...
All the best, --stolfi