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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 147

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architrave, which differ in all the orders. (Seeorder, capital, column, cornice, architrave,frieze.) Etruscan Art. The Etruscan style of artisthat which prevailed in that school from itsfoundation down to a certain epoch, which the … THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. 115 Latins distinguished by the word Tuscanicus.This style, according to Strabo, resembled theEgyptian, or rather the early Greek style.Quintilian calls it dry, and Cicero hard. Equestrian Statue (in sculpture), thestatue of a man on horseback. Pliny, in thebeginning of…

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