Cousin · Florence

lantern

A windowed turret crowning the top of a dome.

Where an ancient oculus left the crown of a dome open to the sky, Renaissance builders set a tall glazed lantern over the opening, keeping rain out while weighting and stabilizing the dome's compression ring.

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