A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 98
y after the seat ofgovernment had beenfixed at Ravenna, theoldest and probably thefinest of the noble groupof Christian basilicas,has disappeared beneaththe tasteless rebuildingof the seventeenth cen-tury, its round bell-toweralone remaining. Butthe baptistery, which wascontemporary with it,and… … Fig-. 47- Raveuna Baptistery. nearly the same as that of the central ring of the tomb of Constantiaor the church at Xocera, — about thirty-seven feet. The interioris undivided, but the flat spherical dome which covers it springsdirectly from the outer walls, at a height of about forty-two feetabove…
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