A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 228
ued inChristian architecture, especially in liaptisteries,but the round form gradually iirevailed inthem over the rectangular. The Roman tombs,and rotundas that appear to have been tombs,were most commonly domed, and are oftenligiited, like the Pantlieon, through a round open-ing in tlie crown of… … Round Church: S. Costanza at Rome; ske Plan. cules at Rome and of Vesta at Tivoli, and stillmore for important tombs. This last usecommended it to the Christians for memorialbuildings. The most characteristic Romantype was a cylinder with a thick wall, inwhich niches were cut inside,-most…
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