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Inside, on the ceiling of the central octagonal dome, are Correggio’s greatest masterpieces, his frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin (1530) where he achieved, in the truest sense, exalting emotion without the sentimentality of Mannerist imitators.
Inside the church, stand in the choir to appreciate the majesty of the dome.
The great dome of Parliament, equal in height to that of the basilica, is clearly visible from the square.
Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.
In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.