Ways of Building: The Arcuated System page 9



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Vaults at work: the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Rome, 4th century AD) II

Here is a reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine showing what scholars thought it looked like originally.



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