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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 78

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e spherical triangle, e. g. in adomed octagonal hall belonging to the Baths of Caracalla. The so-called Temple of Minerva Medica at Rome, which really belongedto the private Baths of Gallienus (a. d. 260-268), a ten-sidedroom with a cupola built upon ribs so as to distribute the thrust,marks a… … Tuscan Doric order of the temple of Jupiter Latiaris on Mens Albanus(after Piranesi). 62 ARCHITECTUKE chap, u towards the subtler equilibrium of opposing stresses, and theirartistic handling of space is perhaps unsurpassed, they failed tograsp the true principle of decoration, viz. that it should…

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