History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 233
the time of Julius II.,who, in 1503, employed the celebrated Bramante tocarry on this great undertaking. This architectformed the original plan of the cupola, and causedfour stupendous pillars, or piers, two hundred andnine feet in circumference, to be raised to support it.The patron and the… … CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. 187 which he deemed too weak to support the stupendouscupola. Various other architects were employed byihe pontiffs who succeeded Leo, until at last, Paul III.committed the edifice to the incomparable genius ofMichael Angelo Buonarotti, who designed the domeand cupola as they…
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