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Ribs, system of, in Florence dome, 16-19, 55 (cuts); in Gothic vaulting have nothing of the character of dome ribs, 20, 21, 56; of St. Peter's dome, Rome, 55, 56, 59; of cath. of Salamanca, 57, 58.

Riccio, Antonio, his work on east side of the court of the Ducal Palace, Venice, 154 (plate).

Rimini, San Francesco of, church of, 35; façade, 38, 42; modelled on the arch of Septimius Severus, 38, 42; ressauts, 38.

Roman arch and entablature scheme applied to a continuous arcade, 118, 119.

Roman architecture, furnished models for Renaissance architecture, 38, 40, 43, 97; use of entablature block in, 37; use of the arch in, 37; the ressaut, 38; triumphal arch design a model for Renaissance fa9ades, 38, 39-43 (cut); treatment of the angle, 79 (cut).

Roman architectural carving, furnished models for Renaissance work, 167; tasteless and meaningless designs, 1701; leafage of, compared with Greek leafage, 174 (cuts).

Roman Renaissance, church architecture of the, 66-101 (cuts); palatial architecture, 112-134. See Renaissance architecture and Rome.

Romanesque architecture, 7; Rhenish Romanesque style of ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.

Rome, its monuments the inspiration of Renaissance architecture, 3, 43, 247.

St. Peter's, rebuilding and demolishing of the old basilica, 47; work of Rossellino, 47; work of Bramante, 47-53 (cuts), 63, 64, 70; date of the beginning of building, 47; general plan, 47, 53, 66 (cut); the plans of Raphael and Peruzzi, 472; work of Michael Angelo, 54-65 (cuts), 66; work of Maderna, 66, 245; short-sighted admiration of, 71; design of Antonio San Gallo, 71; influence of, seen in other churches, 90, 92; arabesque on door-valves, 170 (cut); Wren's scheme for St. Paul's based on the model of, 236, 237; comparison of, with St. Paul's, 236, 239, 241, 243. 245.
Dome, 44-65 (cuts); use of the Pantheon and the Basilica of Maxentius as models, 49-52 (cuts); drum, 50 (cut), 53; abutments, 50 (cut), 53; colonnade, 51, 56, 142; lantern, 52; piers, 53, 66, 68; buttresses, 53 (cut), 55, 56, 59; design of Michael Angelo, 53-65 (cuts); his alterations of Bramante's scheme, 53-55, 64; attic, 54 (cut); vault shells, 54 (cut), 55; ribs, 55, 56, 59; binding chains, 59, 60, 62; ruptures in, 59, 60-63 (cut), 64; mathematicians' report of the condition of the structure in 1742, 60 (cut); violation of laws of stability in, 64, 65; strengthening of Bramante's work, 64I; its beauty exaggerated, 65; likeness of Wren's scheme of St. Paul's to, 236.
Exterior, 68-70 (cut); makeshifts necessitated by the use of the colossal order, 68-70 (cut); aisle walls carried to the height of the clerestory, 68, 245; domes over the aisles, 68-70 (cut), 245.
Interior, Bramante's scheme, 53, 66; Michael Angelo's work, 53, 66-70; piers, 53, 66, 68; effect of magnitude dwarfed by the colossal order, 53, 67, 68; great size of the structural parts, 68; part of the vault hidden by the cornice, 68, 92; its ornamentation a cheap deception, 71; ressauts, 90, 92.
Church of the Gesù, 91-95 (cuts); Vignola's plan given in his book on the Five Orders, 92; interior, general scheme, 92; orders, 92; entablature 92; façade, 92-95 (cuts): broken pediments of, 93, 95; scroll work and hermæ, 93; reversed consoles, 95; tablets, 95 (cut).
Church of Sant' Agostino, 72-74 (cuts); its architects, 72; date, 72; the general style is Rhenish Romanesque, 72; nave, 72; Renaissance ornamental details, 72 (cut); facade, 73, 74 (cut); truncated pediment, 74; tablets in wall surface, 74; dome, 74.
Church of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, 86-89 (cuts); dome, 86; façade, 86-88 (cut), 92, 101; likeness to the Pantheon, 87; entablature, 89 (cut).
Church of San Biagio, entablature, 78 (cut).
Church of Santa Maria della Pace, cloister arcade, 119.
Church of St. Paul outside the wall, entablature, 301.
The Tempietto, 44-46 (cut); the dome and its drum, 44, 74; resemblance to the temple of Vesta, 44, 45; orders, 45, 83; dome of St. Paul's, London, recalls, 239.
Arch of Septimius Severus used as model of façades by Alberti, 38, 39-43 (cut); treatment of angle in, 79.
Arch of the Silversmiths, 39.
Arch of Titus, scheme of, used by Sansovino in the Loggetta of the Campanile, Venice, 123.
Basilica of Maxentius, columns and arches, 37; as model for St. Peter's, 49.