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 619
was used asbuilding-material, butsince 1228 good carehas been taken of theremains. Only fourarches of the originalseventy-two of theouter wall are stand-ing, but most of theinterior, with its vomitoria and its forty- ters. as in the adjoining cathedral, and ar-four tiers of seats, is in good… … Fig. 248.—Verona, Amphitheatre. Veronese am2>hitheatre is but three sto-ries high and its decorative architectureis entirely Tuscan. The greater axismeasures 506 ft., the lesser, 403 ft. ; theaxes of the arena are 248 ft. and 145 ft. ;the height is 98 ft., the area nearly four after an…
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