The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 295
flowers and foliage boast thesame elegance as on the coasts of Attica or the Peloponnesus, Caria orIonia. On the borders of the territory of the Greek colony, in a placecalled Le Bas Vernegues, near the Pont Royal, on the road from Aix toLambesc, is to be seen a temple of the Corinthian order,… … The capital of a grave form, notwithstanding the richness of its de-tails, is decorated with sharp cut leaves, like those still to be seen atAthens, and on the coasts of Asia Minor. It reminds us of the foliageused in the decoration of the capitals of Pompeia, sculptured in theHellenic school. In…
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