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Historical Archive: Lateran Baptistery (S. Giovanni in Fonte), Rome Narthex and Octagon see also the Baptistery's exterior page foundations 314-35 present octagon built under Sixtus III (432-40) biapsidal narthex with monumental entrance: 5th century chapel of St. Venantius built and ornamented under John IV (640-42) and Theodore (642-49) narthex, eastern end: chapel of SS. Cyprian and Justina, with late 18th c. altar; left: monument of Alessandro Borgia (d.1764), Tommaso Righi (1727-1802) narthex, original marble revetment to left of apse and 1573 wooden ceiling narthex, western end: 1757 chapel of SS Rufina and Seconda, with monuments of Nicola and Nicola Maria Lercari (both d.1757), by Tommaso Righi (1727-1802) narthex, western end with 1573 wooden ceiling, and school of Andrea Bregno 1482 marble Crucifixion (right) narthex, eastern conch narthex, eastern conch narthex, eastern conch: candelabrum narthex, apex of eastern conch narthex, apex of eastern conch narthex, doves narthex, Lamb of God. Not available in higher resolution. narthex, pendant jeweled cross narthex, pendant jeweled cross narthex, 1573 ceiling and early 2nd c. capital narthex, early 2nd c. capital narthex, early 2nd c. capital narthex, early 2nd c. base octagon, center looking up octagon, center sunken baptismal area with 1967 stag octagon, font: Roman green basalt basin with bronze cover by Ciro Ferri (1634-89) octagon ambulatory with marble balustrade and porphyry columns octagon ambulatory pilaster capital octagon ambulatory pilaster capital with Barberini bees octagon ambulatory: Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Andrea Camassei (1602/49), west wall at entry to oratory of John the Baptist octagon ambulatory wooden ceiling of Leo X (1513-27) octagon, center part octagon, center part with person for scale octagon marble columns of upper level, and Bernini dome for Urban VIII, 1630-33 octagon marble columns of upper level, and Bernini dome for Urban VIII, 1630-33 octagon upper level entablature and composite capital octagon upper level composite capital Barberini bee of Urban VIII (1623-44) on octagon upper level composite capital. Not available in higher resolution. octagon colonnades and early 2nd c. entablature octagon lower level Corinthian capital, early Imperial, reworked under Urban VIII (1623-44) octagon, early 2nd c. entablature with wooden ceiling octagon, early 2nd c. entablature octagon, inscription of Sixtus III on back of entablature