A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 233
ed inChristian architecture, especially in bapti-steries,but the round form gradually prevailed inthem over the rectangular. The Roman tnmbs,and rotuwlas tl)at ap])ear to have l)een tombs,were most commonly domed, and are oftenliglited, like the Pantheon, through a round open-ing in the crown of… … KotND Chtrch: S. Costaxz.a. xr Rome: see 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, iuwhich niches were cut inside, most…
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