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covered with lead. Its ribs are 9 to 10 feet apart. The arcades have cross- 
vaults. 
12. Toe Caurch Maponna pecirt Anertt at Rome is a work of 
Michael Angelo, built of a part of the remains of the Baths of Diocletian 
(pl. 46, fig. 19, ground plan, and fig. 20, lateral section). Its ground plan 
is in great part determined by the position of the ruins, for the great hall of 
the baths forms the chief part of the church. The eight antique granite 
columns, 43 feet 6 inches high, have Corinthian and Roman capitals, but the 
fine old door of the hall is walled up. Before this a handsome dome rises 
over the fore-church, between which and the church proper is a vestibule 
with four columns. Battista Soria has not much improved the church by 
his additions. It is roofed with heavy old cross-vaults. Its dimensions are 
336 feet length, 308 feet breadth, and 84 feet height. Adjoining the 
church, also in the ruins of the baths, is the cloister surrounded with one 
hundred columns, and designed by Michael Angelo. 
13. Tae Cuurce or THE Assumption iv Genoa. Galeazzo Alessi (born 
in Perugia in 1500, died in 1572) was for Genoa what Bramante was to 
Rome, Palladio and Sansovino for Venice, and Ammanato for Florence. 
He beautified the city in every direction. He built the Church of the 
Assumption (pl. 45, jig. 3, plan; jig. 4, elevation). This church is by no 
means one of the largest, but one of the best monuments, and of complete 
unity in all its proportions. Its ground plan forms a regular square of 150 
feet, with a small addition about 20 feet deep for the high choir where the 
altar stands. The middle of this square is surmounted by adome of 40 feet 
diameter, resting upon four massive pillars. The interior of the church 
forms a Greek cross, so that this church may be regarded as the completion 
upon a small scale of Michael Angelo’s plan of St. Peter’s. The exterior of 
the dome consists of the drum, composed of arches and massive masonry, 
and adorned with Corinthian pilasters, and of the overtopped dome whose 
lantern has a semi-spherical cap. The effect of this dome, which is 180 feet 
high, is in perfect harmony with that of the portal. 
14. Toe Cuurcn Santa Marta pextia Virrorta iv Roms. Among the 
architects who helped to originate the corrupt Italian style which at the 
end of the 16th century extended from one end of Italy to the other, and 
overloaded the facades with pilasters, gables, and niches, must be reckoned 
Giamb. Soria, who built the facade of the church Maria della Vittoria at 
Rome (pl. 50, jig. 5, elevation). This church was erected at the expense 
of Cardinal Scipio Borghese in gratitude for the ancient statue of the Her- 
maphrodite found in digging the foundations of the church, and presented 
to him. So fair a gift deserved a fairer recognition than this hideous 
facade. The church was commenced in 1605 under Paul V., and the interior 
was ornamented by Maderno with pilasters of Sicilian alabaster, with gilded 
statues, and paintings of Guercino and Guido Reni. The pavement is 
marble. 
15. Taz Cxuurce or Sr. Ienatrus iv Rome. Alessandro Algardi (born 
1602, died 1654) was, like his pupil Baratta, both sculptor and architect, 
and his peculiar gift was the arrangement of irregular places and fountains. 
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