Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 130
s surrounded by a wall mass 20 feetin thickness in which a series of squareand apsidal recesses are, as it were, ex-cavated, thus considerably increasing thetotal diameter. Light is only admitted by anopening 30 feet across at the zenith of thedome into this immense reservoir of air,through which… … Fig. 20. 128 ARCHITECTURE hut into which light entered by the sameopening from which the smoke escaped.Probably at the Pantheon also there wasan altar of incense at the centre from whicha wavering column of smoke arose. The Basilica of Constantine is a mightyhall of three vaulted bays. It is…
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