Cappella Emiliana

[ken_roberts]

A while ago, I mentioned my hope to visit the Cappella Emiliana in Venice, particularly to see the pentagonal antechamber. I was there, and saw it -- a very interesting solution to a novel architectural problem, Namely, how to join a hexagonal structure (the Cappella Emiliana) to the corner of a rectangular church building (San Michele in Isola

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[amandamc_11]

This sounds like an incredible wonder. I've never heard of it before you mentioned it, but have done a little googling and am enchanted. Also, when I googled it, this LiveJournal post was the 4th entry to come up!

[ken_roberts]

It truly is as beautiful as that flickr photo of the exterior!

Quite astonishing that an obscure post like my blog should make the google top-10 on any topic. My 15-bytes of fame, I guess!