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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 495
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- 473 PANTHEON AT ROME. mentioned interior stories is adorned with columns and pilasters,the latter of which enclosed the niches. Eight of… … columns are made of a kind of marble known as -pavonazzetto;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 recognized from Adlers ingenious…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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