8 sentences with “dome”

View of the dome of the National Congress from Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires.

The four existing niches and the dome vault of the church are completely covered with frescoes.

There, in the stillness that reigns under the dome of the mosque, my mind flies back to the past, to the six weeks I spent in prison.

The circular or rectangular buildings have a defining characteristic as a sacred place: the cone-shaped dome supported by a tall cylindrical drum.

The dome was completed in 1413, crowning both his fame as an architect and the Medicis' role as the greatest patrons of Renaissance art and architecture at the time.

The church appears as a vast single space rising towards the large hemisphere of the dome; four semicircular apses arranged according to the arms of the cross open up in the walls.

By studying ancient Roman structures and employing his own incredible intellect, Brunelleschi built the dome in such a way that it held its internal structure together during the construction process.

Filippo Brunelleschi became a prominent client of the Medici, and with their political and financial support he undertook the construction of what would become the largest free-standing domed structure in all of Europe: the dome of Florence Cathedral.