Manti Messenger | 1931-06-26 | Page 7 | Find Builders' Secrets in Cupola of Pantheon

Find Builders' Builders Secrets I in Cupola of Pantheon Architects who have been repairIng repairing repairing repair repair- ing the cupola of the thc Pantheon which with the Colosseum Is the I most Important of Rome's Romes monuments monuments monn- monn ments claim the they have ha discovered the secret of the building methods methode of ot the ancient Romans In flinging the vast arches of ot the dome up from the already high building on which It rests The discoveries are of e. e ex extreme extreme ex- ex Importance from a technical point of ot view It Is said for Michelangelo Michelangelo Michel Michel- an angelo elo himself who built the thc dome of ot Saint Peters Peter's admitted that he was baffled by the dome of ot the Pantheon and previous to Michelangelo Michelangelo Michel Michel- angelo builder of ot the dome of the Florence cathedral made careful measurements and studies of ot the Pantheon dome in preparation for tor his Florence labors but was never ne able to solve the m mystery mystery mys mys- s 's tery of ot how the old oltI Roman architects architects archi archi- worked