Identifier: medievalarchitec01port (find matches)
Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ROMAN THERMS round buildings than of basilicas; but, on the other hand, ofthe fifteen that have come down to us, several are in excel-lent preservation. They are clearly derived from the Greekcircular tcmjjics, of the type shown in 111. 4, Fig. 6, and niaybe divided into two classes. The first, with timber roof, merelyreproduces the Greek form, the only changes being the raisingof the whole on a podium and the introduction of windows inthe cella wall. A well preserved example of this type is theTemple of Mater Matuta at Rome (111. 23). The second typeof circular temple differed from the first originally in the sub-stitution of a dome for a wooden roof. Later, as the buildersperceived the possibilities of the vault, these temples, which intheir peripteral form had been small, were increased to colossaldimensions; the peripteros was discarded; and the result wasthe Pantheon — a great circular hall, covered with a dome, andpreceded by a portico. This building is admittedly the master-p

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