OF DOMES.

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structed in the pendent part; and therefore vaults ofthis character are independent of any support exceptfrom their piers. The windows which open into thevaulting of the naves of Saint Peter’s, of the churchof Sorbonne, and Val de Grace, form these arches.

NOTES.

a In the work entitled, “ Avanzi delle Antichita esistenti aPozzuoli Cuma e Baja, tab. 51., the dome of this temple is shown

to be generated from the revolution of a pointed arch.

Perhaps

that delle Fiore, at Florence, was taken from it.

Feet diam.

Feet high

b The dome of the Pantheon at Rome (ac-

cording to Cameron, merely a vestibuleto Agrippa ’s baths) was

142

143

c The dome of Minerva Medica

78

97

d The dome of the Baths of Caracalla

112

116

e The dome of the Baths of Diocletian -

74

83

f The dome of the Temple of Mercury

68

8 The dome of thfe Temple of Diana

98

78

h The dome of the Temple of Apollo

120

5 The dome of the Temple of Venus

87

77

k The dome of Saint Sophia

115

201

Grelot says that the first dome which

Justinian built was so high that thosewho stood below could hardly see it,and in order to prevent them strainingtheir eyes it civily came down.

-

1 The dome of Saint Peter’s

139

330

m The dome of Santa Maria delle Fiore

139

310

n The dome of Saint Agostino° The dome of Saint Paul’s

112

215

p The dome of the Mosque of Soliman

11 The dome of the Mosque of Achmet

92

120 -

r The dome of the Church of Saint Vital

55

91

s The dome of the Church of Saint Maria

36

61

t The dome of the Church of Saint Marc

44

The Doge Sebastian Ziani sent to Constan­ tinople

for an architect to erect this