The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 15
f pediments andcolumns are applied, in another part of the same work, to the Cathe-dral of St. Peters, at Rome, in the following terms:— One condemnsin the church its front so much broken by partial projections, its pedi-ment standing on a base loo narrow, and an expanse too small, andrendered… … l8-i7.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. Contemplating tliose columns of nearly 9 feet in diameter, butwhich, formed of masonry of small stones, only look on a near ap-proach like small turrets, one cannot help casting a lingering lookback on the portico of the Pantheon, and thinking that…
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