. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. llCHlTECTUllE. I5.)OK L 214. Tlie circular temples of Rome and its neiglibourhood will next be mentioned. Twoof them, that of Vesta at Rome and of the Sybil at Tivoli, of the Corinthian order, are oiconsiderable antiquity. Their cells are cylindrical, and are supposed to have been coveredwith domes resting on the walls, though that is by no means certain. The Temjile ofVesta is raised on three steps, whilst tliat of the Sybil is raised on a circular
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. llCHlTECTUllE. I5.)OK L 214. Tlie circular temples of Rome and its neiglibourhood will next be mentioned. Twoof them, that of Vesta at Rome and of the Sybil at Tivoli, of the Corinthian order, are oiconsiderable antiquity. Their cells are cylindrical, and are supposed to have been coveredwith domes resting on the walls, though that is by no means certain. The Temjile ofVesta is raised on three steps, whilst tliat of the Sybil is raised on a circular baseuieiilabout five feet high. Both tiie celUc are encircled about with a colonnade of the Corinthinnorder. The capitals of the Temi)le of the Sybil are extraordinary as pieces of ellective artThe leaves of the capital, instead of being njipliquees to the bell, as in other examples, ar».in this cut into it, and impart a magical appearance to it. The tout ensemble of thistemple seems to have been conceived with an eye to its situation, and the order seemscalculated only for the spot on which it stands (see Jiff. 116.). The circular Temple. t ^ IK Ut mil SiHlI of naccluis is of a late date. In its exterior there is notliing to remark, excejit that it haslost a portico at its entrance which originally belonged to it. It consists of a central cir-cular cell, if such it may be called, surrounded by a circidar aisle, the former beingseparated from the latter by twelve pairs of double columns, coupled in the direction of theradii of the (dan; from which columns arches sjjring, carrying a cylindrical wall ;?9;i(i , covered with a hemispherical dome C))-i> ft. high from the pavemi nt. Tlieaisle or corridor is 14*75 ft. wide, surrounding the double colonnade, from whichto the exterior wall is a semicircular vault, whose sofite is 32 ft. high from thepavement. Of the foimer so called Tem|le of Minerva Medica, now consideredto be a Hall or Nymphsum belonging to the
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