Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 502
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, perhaps,quite 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 spacecorresponding…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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