Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 39
PrilTHEATRE tCOLOSSEVMlROr\E [FepujusonJ 17 THE ARCHITECTURAL BASISarch led to vaulting, and to the use of arch mould-inors, enrichments, and to the cov^ering the vaultswith mosaic and painting, and the vaulting led tothe dome, which, again, offered a splendid field forthe mosaicist and the… … mouldings, and carving stone garlands upon theirfriezes, to take the place of the primitive festal onesof leaves which were hung there, as in the relief ofthe visit of Bacchus to Icarius, a Romano-Greeksculpture in the British Museum. They (the Romans) fully realized the ornamentalvalue of…
Decoration and ornament
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