A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 462
l opens from the transept,used for the services of the church inwinter. The high altar is nearly underthe triumphal arch, and is covered by ahigh Gothic ciborium in two stories, awork of the xiv cent., the lower storywith square openings, the upper with fourround foliated arches with gables… … Fig. 164.—Rome, S. Giovanni in Laterano. chapel, built in 1729 by Pope Clement XII.from the designs of Alessandro Galilei.Its plan is a Greek cross, its arms coveredby barrel-vaults, its centre by a high hemi- spherical dome with drum and lantern,and the whole interior of almost unex-ampled…
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