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The baroque ceiling and dome. The pattern on the ceiling is very much like that in the Roman Basilica Maxentius and Pantheon and the dome is slightly smaller than the Pantheon's in diameter. This has led some to describe the design of St. Peter's as the Pantheon atop the Basilica Maxentius

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