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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 194

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cella, surrounded by a peristyleoriginally composed of twenty Corinthian columns, butone of which has been destroyed. The entablature, how-ever, has disappeared, and much of the elegance and A SECOA^D CIRCULAR TEMPLE. 191 harmony of the building is lost through the intrusiveeffect of its modern… … Temple of Vesta. It is but right to mention that Canina considers theChurch of San Teodoro, which is also a circular building,at the southern extremity of the Campo Vaccino, to bethe real Temple of Vesta. But most archaeologistsidentify the church with the Temple of Romulus. f92 A ROMAN MAUSOLEUM.…

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