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 487
mores))lendid cliurch and more strictly classi-cal than had yet been built, proposing tohimself, we are told, to set the dome ofthe Pantheon upon the arches of the Tem-ple of Peace. Pope and architect fell towork with equal eagerness, Julius to raisemoney by the sale of indulgences all… … Fig, 198.—Rome, St Peters. Tlie corner-stone was laid, in tlie founda-tion of tlie S. W. jiier of the dome, onApril 18,1506. Bent on realizing liis mainconceiition of the dome, Bramante pressedthe construction of the four great piersand their arches so eagerly, that at thetime of Juliuss death, in…
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