A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 194
ike, aggressive, domineering, andostentitious, were its |)atrons. For the Romans,as their emjjirc gained on the world, and undertheir rule cities grew ])o|)ulous and wealthy,and filled with such great public buildings a.swere unknown In-fore, the arch was fouiul theirbest servant. It gave so nmch… … GRECO-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE GRECO-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE much splendour of ertect into the exteriors, thata practical, sumptuous people like the Romanscould not but make the most of it. Accord-ingly they made the arch the constructive basisof most of their civic arcliiteeture ; but, workingalways in…
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