Identifier: historyofarchit01cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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70 ARClilTECTURE 1^ ITALY covered by a round arch springing from a light impost moukling.The wall of the upper story recedes from the face of the lower wall,and was originally encircled by an open arcaded gallery with roundarches sui)i)orted on small columns. This gallery has quite disap-peared, but the number and form of the arches are clearly indicated
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Fiff. 02. Mausoleum of Theodoric. on the face of the wall. The wall is continued three or four feetabove the roof of the gallery, and is finished by a heavy cornice of))e(uliar design, and covered by a low saucer-shaped dome, which isperhaps the most striking example in existence of the mechanicalresources of the ancient builders. The dome is cut from a singleblock of Istrian marble, is about thirty-five feet in exterior diameter,with a rise of about eight feet, and weighs some four liundred tons.^ ^ The impossibility of (lti)»ii(liii<; on the figures and statements of authorities con-cerning^ the monuments of antiijuity is nowhere more forcibly illustrated than in the caseof this well-known building-. Xothinp- would seem to be easier than to secure accuratemeasurements of so simple a structure and to state with exactness the main facts of itsconstruction and desijjfn. Yet there is scarcely a ))oint in rejjard to this buildiu);- con-cernin«j which the authorities are not at varia

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