Art in California : a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition : being essays and articles by the following contributors (1916)
Porter, Bruce · San Francisco : R.L. Bernier · leaf 641
On the rotunda arches, the spring line of the arch was not accen-tuated because it would have spoiled the proportion of the central archseen from the opposite side of the lagoon. The other arches had to reachto the ground and therefore pilasters and entablatures accentuated thespring line. The… … are made to avoid perspective distortion, just as they were made inthe Pantheon in Rome (Figure 11). The difference in level between the floor of the dome and the altarcame from the fact that a pedestal for the dome was needed, as wellas for the main building; therefore the whole composition was…
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.) · Art, American · Art
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