yle, in contradistinctionfrom the incrustation style above described. It seems to have^been adopted early in the first century b. c.—the earliest example 400 ART CHAP, vrii is found in the smaller theatre at Pompeii, built shortly after 80B. c.—and remained in use until the Augustan period. The… … Fig. 60. Eoman historical painting. of the style the threefold division of the wall-surface is stillmarked ; but the dado has become a projecting shelf, and thepilasters are replaced by columns which appear to stand free fromthe wall. The next step was to treat the uppermost portion ofthe…
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