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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 77

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-. The attached columns of the lower arcade aresquare pilasters with Doric capitals, and those of the upperranee are round and of the Corinthian order. … FIG. 9. AMPHITHEATRE, ARLES.—ExtCtior. The design may possibly have originally included anattic story; but this, if it ever existed, which seems to bedoubtful, as not a single stone of it has been found, hasentirely disappeared. Merimee points out that the mouldings and enrich-ments of the…

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