A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 458
deed, it was not untilafter the conquest of Greece itself that thetem|)les of the Romans were deeply influencedby those of the Greeks. Certain well-marked TEMPLE differences were, however, well maintained. TheRoman tcmi)le differed from tiie Greek: 1st, inthe greater dejjth of its jjortico ; 2d, in… … Temple, Fig. 7: that at Ellora, India, of steps, but on a lofty base or podium, withplinth and cornice of its own. (See Vol. II.,pi. XII.) The Romans, from the earliest to the latesttimes, showed a fondness for the circle in theirtemple plans. In the Temple of Vesta, in theFonim Romanum, one of the…
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