The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 32
cy and arts of the North gradually encroached uponand finally absorbed it. Having to investigate the architecture of a region sorich in historic and artistic records, it may be well, beforeconsidering its monuments in detail, to glance a little morefully at the historic conditions under which the… … 11. THE history of the littoral of the Mediterranean goesback to the earliest dawn of maritime enterprise. The coast was visited by the Phoenicians, those firstand adventurous merchants and navigators of the Levant,who pushed their commerce even as far as the shores ofdistant Britain. Carthage was…
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