The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 368
e, showing outside in the ribs of the dome, oneover each buttress. The outside of the inner shellis notched in courses, up which the visitor mayclimb, as up the Great Pyramid of Egypt, to thebase of the lantern. This is itself a considerablestructure, being forty feet across and sixty-fivehigh… … SAINT PETERS 291 then is an enormous accumulated weight, to bepoised on the tops of arches and pendentives onehundred and fifty feet above the pavement, andbuilt up four hundred and fifty feet into the air. The meridian arcs or webs may be said to pene-trate the two shells, projecting above and…
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