Note 28 — Chapter III · CHURCH ARCHITECTURE OF THE FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE

The entablature does, however, occur under vaulting in some provincial Roman buildings, as in the Pantheon of Baalbek, where it forms the wall cornice from which the vaulting springs. But this, though not defensible, is less objectionable than the Renaissance scheme of an entablature passing through the imposts of archivolts.