71.41 Restoration of the Porta Latina.



71.42 From St. Nicolas in Carcere, Rome.



71.43 Flying buttress from the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.



71.44 Arches of the Farnese Palace at Rome by Vignola; return towards the principles of the ancients.



71.45 Portion of the antique theater called Castrense.



71.46 From the wall of a private house, Via di Borgo, Rome.



71.47 Transverse section of an ancient tomb on the Appian Way, between Rome and Albano.



CONSTRUCTION OF VAULTING



71.48 Vault from the Baths of Diocletian at Rome; it consists of chains of brick following the crown of the arch, the intervals filled in with rubble.





71. Methods of construction in use before and during the decline of art.
Seroux d'Agincourt, The History of Art through Its Monuments from Its Decline in the Fourth Century to Its Renewal in the Sixteenth, 71.6/7.



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