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 503
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- 478 PANTHEON AT ROME. mentioned interior stories is adorned with columns and pilasters,the latter of which enclosed the niches. Eight of… … HALF-SECTION OP THE PANTHEON. columns are made of a kind of marble known as pavofiazzetto;by 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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