The Dome.
Non-existence of the Dome in our old English architecture--Highly
developed forms in France, Germany, and Italy, contemporary with
our great Mediæval edifices--Suggestions for its introduction
into our revived and redeveloped Neo-mediæval style--So-called
Tomb of Agamemnon at Mycenæ--The Pantheon--Temple of Minerva
Medica--Torre dei Schiavi--Temples of Vesta at Rome and Tivoli--Temple
of Jupiter in Diocletian’s Palace, Spalatro--Tomb of St.
Constantia--Baptistery at Nocera--Baptistery at Ravenna--Important
domical development--“Pendentive Domes”--Early specimens--Pendentive
domes the special characteristic of the Byzantine style--How
this originated--Further domical developments--Cathedral at
Florence--Churches of SS. Sergius and Bacchus, the Apostles, and St.
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