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This temple, both open and mysteriously enclosed, was conceived as a solar quadrant. The hours would make their round on that caissoned ceiling so carefully polished by Greek artisans; the

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disk of daylight would rest suspended there like a shield of gold; rain would form its clear pool on the pavement below, prayers would rise like smoke toward that void where

we place the gods...

However, not all the worshippers have treated this structure with the respect that it deserved and consequently some beauty has been lost. Specifically the Christians, after adopting the church, were keen to strip it of its precious bronze plating. Constans II took the gilded bronze from the dome in 663, followed by Pope Urban VIII's seventeenth century pillaging of the massive bronze doors of the portico...

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