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 495
s equal to the diameter of the cy-lindrical building, 132 feet, which adds to the sober and harmo-nious impression of the whole building. The lower of the above- 4^8 PANTHEON AT ROME. mentioned interior stories is adorned with columns and pilasters,the latter of which enclosed the niches. Eight oi… … HALF-SECTION OK TIIK PANTHEON. columns are made of a kind of marble known ?i% pavouazzetfo;h\ an ingenious mode of coloring these columns are made to har-monize with those consisting of the rarer material. Above thefirst lies a second lower story, the architectural arrangements ofwhich may be…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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