Plate VII. Circular Domed Buildings and the Pantheon Type

Plate VII. — The combination of the circle with the square shown in Nos. I, II and III was developed from a Roman type. This is the Chapelle Expiatoire at Paris and it is essentially in the nature of a memorial. Further applications of this theory are discussed and illustrated in Series II. The large circular motives shown on this Plate are applicable to buildings in isolated positions for such uses as national pantheons. In Nos. IV and V an external peristyle is provided, while in Nos. VI and VII the ambulatory is formed by a ring of internal columns. The building shown in Nos. VIII, IX and X belongs to the type of the Pantheon, Rome, which in almost every country figures as a motive for isolated domed buildings on the largest scale.