A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 555
aced overthe pillars. The order too was finer and more important than at St. Peters,twenty-four of the pillars being taken from some temple or building(it is generally said the mausoleum of Hadrian) of the best age ofRome, though the remaining sixteen were unfortunately only verybad copies of them.… … View of the Interior of St. Pauls, at Kome, before tlie fire. the arch made more important, the most glaring defect of these build-ings would in a great measure haA^e been avoided. Long before its destruction by fire in 1822 this church had beenso altered as to lose many of its most striking…
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