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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 100

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lumns attached to the cella are visible, is notso satisfactory. The temple is surrounded by thirtycolumns in all, including those of the portico, whichstand free, and the engaged columns of the flanks and rear.This is what is called the pseudo-peripteral plan—the trueperipteral temple having the… … 70 ROMAN PERIOD. however, worthy of note, that the Plan of this building withits deep porch is rather Italo-Etruscan than Greek, and thusadheres to the traditional type observed by the Romans. The cornice is perhaps rather over-enriched and isindicative of a late date, when classic art was in…

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