A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 233
nued inChristian architecture, especially in baptisteries,but the round form gradually prevailed inthem over the rectangular. The Roman tombs,and rotundas that appear to have been tombs,were most commonly domed, and are oftenlighted, like the Pantheon, through a round open-ing in the crc>wn of… … EouxD CHrKCH; S. Costaxza at Roite: .«ke Pljlx- cules at R: ; Vesta at TivoU, and still more for important tombs. This last usecommended it to the Chrisrians for memorialbuildings. The most characterisric Romantype was a cylinder with a thick wall, inwhich niches were cut inside, most…
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