[64] _Ibid._, p. 19.
[65] I call the end of the sanctuary “the east end” according to the nomenclature of the usual orientation. St. Peter’s, as is well known, does not conform to the general rule which has prevailed since the fifth century.
[66] These vaults may have been begun by some of his predecessors. It is impossible to make out how far the building had been actually advanced by them.
[67] The colossal order of the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek is so unique in scale, and so little known, that it does not influence our general notions of the size of a large classic order.
[68] As it actually does in the western part of the nave built by Maderna.
[69] _Le Vite_, etc., vol. 7, p. 249.
[70] _Il Tempio Vaticano e sua Origine_, etc. Discritto dal Cav. Carlo Fontana, Rome, 1694, vol. 2, p. 406.
[71] Letarouilly, _Edifices de Rome Moderne_, Paris, 1860, p. 350.
[72] Milizia, _op. cit._, vol. 1, p. 144, affirms that it is by Bramante.
[73] Cf. Fontana, _op. cit._, vol. 2, p. 363.