A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 193
ggressive, domineering, andostentatious, were its patrons. For the Romans,as their em|)ire gained on the world, and undeitheir rule cities grew populous and wealthy,and filled with such great public buildings aswere unknovni before, the arch was found theirbest servant. It gave so much flexibility… … c O S aW y.. 5 PS 3 >> C 5^ PSI O o cco r- o sis■5 I ^ i* o 2 GRECO-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE nnic-h .splendour of etUi-t iiiti) tlio exteriors, tluit:i practical, suiujitvious ]Hople like the Romanscoulil not but make the most of it. Accord-ingly they made the arch the constructive basisof most of…
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