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Chapter 9478 whereas that is octagonal, the towers are hexagonal; whereas the columns in the mausoleum are engaged, those in the towers are freestanding and create a concentric aisle or gallery around the central space. Moreover for both char- acteristics earlier examples can be found elsewhere either in ancient remains or in contemporary design. Hexagonal spaces are found for instance among Baldassare Peruzzi’s designs and also in Serlio’s Quinto Libro, On Temples, first published in Paris in 1547. Circular colonnades are found in many places and were often inspired by Santa Costanza in Rome. Built by Constantine the Great in ca 350 A.D. as a mausoleum for his daughters, this earliest Christian sanctuary was illustrated by Serlio as a ‘Temple of Bacchus’ [Fig. 9.55]. An interesting contemporary ex- ample in a domestic setting is the design for a ‘palazzo circolare’, last of the ‘capricci’ in Pietro Cataneo’s I quattro libri dell’Architettura of 1554 [Fig. 9.56].75 So by itself the resemblance between towers and Diocletian’s mausoleum pro- vides no conclusive evidence for a possible dependence of the concept of the Neugebäude on Split. The same holds, finally, for what is probably the most obvious correspon- dence between Split and the Neugebäude, the long and monumental gallery or 75 Cataneo 1554, pp. 54; on Cataneo, cf. above, chs. 5.2.3 and 5.3.1 Figure 9.55 Sebastian Serlio, plan of a ‘Temple of Bacchus ‘(Santa Costanza in Rome), from his Terzo Libro, 1544. Figure 9.56 Pietro Cataneo, plan of a ‘palazzo circolare’ from the Quarto Libro of his Quattro libri dell’Architettura, 1554.