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Chronological and historical table of the invention and employment of the cupola or dome


1. Plan and section of the Pantheon, Rome.
2. Plan and section of an antique edifice, still seen outside the walls of Rome, and called the Torre de' Schiavi; this monument offers an early example of a hemispheric vault, erected upon an octagonal plan, with pendentives in the angles.
3. Another example of the same, in a hall or temple, forming part of the Baths of Caracalla.

Sixth Century.
4. Plan and section on the diagonal of the center part of the Church of St. Sophia at Constantinople.
5. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Vitali at Ravenna, constructed by Justinian, at the time this same prince erected St. Sophia at Constantinople. 23/1-9.

Seventh and Eighth Centuries.
6. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Michael at Pavia. 24/.
7. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Mark at Venice, commenced in the tenth and terminated in the eleventh century. 26/.

Eleventh Century.
8. Plan and section of the cupola of the Cathedral of Pisa. 25/32-34.

Twelfth Century.
9. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of Sta. Maria in Castello at Corneto. 73/48; 64/14; 42/6; 70/17.

Tenth and Eleventh Centuries.
10. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Cyriac, Cathedral of Ancona. 25/38.

Thirteenth Century.
11. Plan and section of the Cathedral of Siena. 73/.
12. Plan and section of the tower of the Church of Notre Dame at Dijon. 36/1-13.

Fifteenth Century.
13. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Augustine, near the Place Navona at Rome, built in 1483, by Baccio Pintelli, a Florintine architect; although not important by its dimensions, it forms an epoch in the history of cupolas; all those which had been erected up to that period were either like the Pantheon, no.1, supported on the walls; or on pendentives united to the arches of the nave, as at St. Sophia and St. Mark, no. 4 and 7; or on low tambours, as at the Cathedrals of Pisa, Sienna, and Florence, nos. 8, 11, and 16. The cupola of St. Augustine is the first which was established on a tour de dome, a happy idea more fully carried out in the dome of St. Peter's. 42/24.

14. View of the cradle vaulting of the antique temple at Niemes.

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
15. Vaulting of the nave of the Basilica of St. Peter.

Fifteenth Century.
16. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of Sta. Maria del fiore at Florence.
17. Plan and section of the cupola of the Church of St. Peter.
18. View of the antique temple of Niemes. (La maison Carrée.)

Sixteenth Century.
19. Bird's-eye view of the Church of St. Peter.






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