Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

134 From Rome to Naples.
na has abundantly satisfy’d the World in
this Particular, and ihewn how the an-
cient Figure, and Ornaments of the Pan-
theon^ have been chang’d into what they
are at present. This Author, who is
now esteem’d the bell: of the Roman
Architects, has lately written a Treatise
on Vefyasiaris Amphitheater, which is
not yet Printed.
After having seen these Two Ma-
iler-pieces of Modern and Ancient Ar-
chitecture, I have often consider’d with
my self whether the ordinary Figure
of the Heathen, or that of the Christian
Temples be the most beautiful, and the
most capable of Magnificence, and can’t
forbear thinking the Cross Figure more
proper for Rich spacious Buildings than
the Rotund. 1 must confess the Eye is
better fill’d at first entering the Rotund^
and takes in the whole Beauty and Mag-
nificence of the Temple at one view.
But such as are built in the Form of a
Cross, give us a greater Variety of No-
ble ProspeCts. Nor is it easie to conceive
a more glorious Show in Architecture,
than what a Man meets with in St. Pe-
ters, when he'stands under the Dome.
If he looks upward he is astonilh’d at
the spacious Hollow of the Cupola, and
has a Vault on every side of him, that
makes