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... Michelangelo in the 16th century . The other is the Basilica of Maxentius ( AD 307-312 ) , also with a span of 26 metres . All of these buildings contained stone columns , but they were purely ornamental and could have been removed at ...
... Michelangelo in the 16th century . The other is the Basilica of Maxentius ( AD 307-312 ) , also with a span of 26 metres . All of these buildings contained stone columns , but they were purely ornamental and could have been removed at ...
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... Michelangelo , who served as architect from 1546 to 1564 , and the architects Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana , under whose direc- tion it was finally built during the 1580s . The dome was considerably thinner than that of ...
... Michelangelo , who served as architect from 1546 to 1564 , and the architects Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana , under whose direc- tion it was finally built during the 1580s . The dome was considerably thinner than that of ...
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