Art and Archaeology Volume II July-December 1915 (1915)
The Archaeological Institute of America · leaf 8
raised arms are the Persians bearing entablatures men-bent backward from the elbow so that tioned by Vitruvius (cf. figs. 10, 11).the whole forearm touches the architrave. With the advent of the solid heavy con-The same motive is repeated four cen- struction of the Romanesque architectureturies… … FKi. t CARYATID PROM THE ERECHTHEUMIN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. the architecture he is trying to sustain.Therefore, the Atlantes are continued,but the female Caryatids drop out. TheRomanesque Atlantes are no longer truesons of Atlas, endowed with supernaturalstrength, but are ordinary men crushedby the…
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