Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 39
ich the vault is made to spring from withinthe drum, and is thus necessarily, either in part or entirely,hidden from external view. A remarkable dome of this latter class is that of the Bap-tistery of Florence, which, though the building has undergonevarious superficial transformations since its… … Fig. 5. — Section of Baptistery. from a level far below the top of the enclosing walls. In elevation the dome (Fig. 5) has a pointed outline, and is coveredby a pyramidal roof of stone the upper part of which is incor-porated with the dome itself, while beneath the lower portionis a void between…
Architecture, Renaissance
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