Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 494
columns carrying the ugly taber-nacle on the grave of St. Peter are one of the results of this bar-barous spoliation. The old door, also made of brass, which leadsfrom the portico into the interior has, on the contrary, been pre-served. The outer appearance of the round building is simpleand… … THE PANTHEON AT ROME. where the insertion of the vault becomes visible, look, perhapSyquite as beautiful as the original coating. The whole cylinder ofmasonry is divided into .-- --. , ^^^^^ three stripes by means ofcornices, which break theheaviness of the outline, thedivisions of the inner…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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