. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. BY THE TIBKR. 151. feet—17 less than the Pantheon. Opposite to the entrance is an apse,and on each side there are three recesses, as at the Pantheon, whichwere used as caldaria, but are now, in the Pantheon, chapels of thesaints. The i^ortico is 110 feet long, and 44 feet deep. Sixteen Corinthiancolumns, 46i feet high and 5 feetin diameter, support the roof. ThePantheon was converted into achurch by Boniface IV. in 609, bypermission of the Emjjeror Ph
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. BY THE TIBKR. 151. feet—17 less than the Pantheon. Opposite to the entrance is an apse,and on each side there are three recesses, as at the Pantheon, whichwere used as caldaria, but are now, in the Pantheon, chapels of thesaints. The i^ortico is 110 feet long, and 44 feet deep. Sixteen Corinthiancolumns, 46i feet high and 5 feetin diameter, support the roof. ThePantheon was converted into achurch by Boniface IV. in 609, bypermission of the Emjjeror Phocas,and it was dedicated to the martyrson November 1st (All Saints Day),830. The doors and grating above,of ancient bionze, with the rimround the circular opening in thevault of the interior, are all that isleft of the ancient metal interior is 142 feet in diameter,and 143 feet high, and is lightedby an open space of 28 feet indiameter. It is the burial-place of Raphael and of Victor EmanuelII.—rigid of high altar. Pliny says (Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 4) : The Pantheon of Agrippahas been decorated by Diogenes of Athens, and the caryatides byhim, whic
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