us dwellings readily imitated by the facile brush of thewall-painter. The Egyptian saloon —no doubt an Alexandrianinvention—was distinguished by its clerestory, and this motivemay be clearly traced in the continuous landscapes, broken bypainted pilasters, which are found in some Italian houses.… … 3 o 6C ft 404 ART chap, vin upper part of the wall-surface, and divided from each other by redpilasters drawn in perspective, so that the spectator was led toplace himself before the central panel and imagine that he waslooking out on a continuous landscape. We read in Vitruvius—who describes the…
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