. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. placed on his monument the in-scription,— Restituit mores, moeiiia, teniiila, Uumos. His works were many and admirable. Amongthose of great use, he constructed i)orticoesfrom the city to San Paolo and S. Lorenzofuori le Mura. 282. Before we advance to the age ofCharlemagne, it will be necessary to noticethe church of St. Vitalis, at Ravenna, whichwe have reserved for this place on account ofthe singularity of its construction. It waserected, as is u
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. placed on his monument the in-scription,— Restituit mores, moeiiia, teniiila, Uumos. His works were many and admirable. Amongthose of great use, he constructed i)orticoesfrom the city to San Paolo and S. Lorenzofuori le Mura. 282. Before we advance to the age ofCharlemagne, it will be necessary to noticethe church of St. Vitalis, at Ravenna, whichwe have reserved for this place on account ofthe singularity of its construction. It waserected, as is usually believed, under the reignof Justinian, in the sixth century. and 145. The exterior walls are formedin a regular octagon, whose diameter is 128 this octagon is another concentric one,,54 ft. in diameter, from the eight piers whereof(55 ft. in height) a hemispherical vault isgathered over, and over this is a timber conicalroof. The peculiarity exhibited in the con-struction of the cupola is, that the spandrels areh\f. i-M. »•?» I T. vi^«iJB, R»v«>N*. filled in with earthen vases ; and that round the. ./2 CwiV. II. HYZAXTINE AND ROMANESQUE. i\H
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