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THE LESSON OF ROME
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PORTA PIA BY MICHAEL ANGELO
stantine showed him the limits which he could expediently exceed in his high aims. And so we have the rotundas, the set-backs, the intersecting walls, the drum of the dome, the hypostyle porch, a gigantic geometry of harmonious relationships. Then we have renewed rhythms in the stylobates, pilasters, and entablatures of entirely new sections. Then the windows and niches which begin the rhythm yet once again. The total mass provides an arresting novelty in the dictionary of architecture; it is salutary to stop and reflect for a moment on this thunderbolt, after the Quintocento.
Finally, St. Peter's should have had an interior which would have been the monumental climax of a S. Maria in
