A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot . S3. THE TEMPLE OF THE SIBYLLE AT TIVOLI. J. HIS temple derives much of its pleasing and picturesque effectfrom the peculiarity of its situation on the extreme edge of a rock,fronting the Cascade of Tivoli, and looking over an extensive the elegance of its architecture, we may discover that it was thework of a good age. Palladio, who has given us a plan of it, conjec-tures that it was dedicated to Vesta. It is a rotunda, and was onceencompassed with eighteen columns o
A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity : recently executed from drawings made upon the spot . S3. THE TEMPLE OF THE SIBYLLE AT TIVOLI. J. HIS temple derives much of its pleasing and picturesque effectfrom the peculiarity of its situation on the extreme edge of a rock,fronting the Cascade of Tivoli, and looking over an extensive the elegance of its architecture, we may discover that it was thework of a good age. Palladio, who has given us a plan of it, conjec-tures that it was dedicated to Vesta. It is a rotunda, and was onceencompassed with eighteen columns of travertine stone, and detachedfrom the building, of which only ten at present remain : they are fluted,of the Corinthian order, and are eighteen feet in height. The entabla-ture, with which they are surmounted, is adorned with festoons, andsupported by the heads of oxen. The outer and inner walls of thistemple, which is nearly 24 feet in diameter, are of that species of ma-sonry, which was called by the ancients reticular. In a round apart-ment in this temple strangers frequently amuse themselves with takingtheir r
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