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A short history of architecture (1897)

Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman,1861-1892 · New York, C. Scribner's · leaf 138

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rchitects, butis nowhere else to be found in Rome. It probablywas for the purpose of somewhat diminishing thedifficulties of this construction that the architectadopted a figure with ten instead of eight sides. The plans of the temple of Vesta and of the bap-tistery of Constantine have been placed… … THE TEMPLE OF VESTA, SOMETIMES CALLED THE TEMPLE OF HERCULES

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