Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 129
e origin skeleton of ribs. The exterior (Fig. 56) was less successful than the inte- FIG. 55.—INTERIOR OF THE PANTHEON. 96 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. rior. The gabled porch of twelve superb granite columns50 feet high, three-aisled in plan after the Etruscan mode,and covered originally by a ceiling… … FIG. 56.—EXTERIOR OF THE P.ANTHEON. (From model in Metropolitan Museum, New York.) many curious arrangements of discharging arches, reminis-cences of traditional constructive precautions here whollyuseless and fictitious because only skin-deep. A revetmentof marble below and plaster above once…
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