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Black and white photograph of a dome, or rather of two domes. The image is split down the center, with the left half the Pantheon dome lining up with the right half of another dome. Both have a pale white glowing circle of sunlight at the oculus in the center, surrounded by a dome inset with rows of hollow sections, square on the left and flower-shaped on the right but clearly similar and fulfilling the same function, making the dome lighter by hollowing out some of the volume of the concrete while leaving ribs in between the hollows which serve as arches, but seem to be just decorative despite being extremely structural. Below the rounded dome sections, both sides have a decorative rail, then windows framed in contrasting colors of stone, and Corinthian columns, though the one on the left has the windows above the columns, while the right one has the windows between the columns. Classical pediments, some rounded and some triangular, crown windows and niches in both.