Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 265
ade, asit was treated by the architects of the Italian Renaissance.An elevation without the essential column and architravewas to them impossible. Hence when constructive reasonscompelled the use of the arch (as was the case in massivesubstructures supporting the seats of a theatre or amphi- 1… … Fig. 24.—The Lion Tomb, Cnidus. behind the orthodox scheme of column and architrave, whichthus becomes—to our eyes but not to those of the ancients—a sort of artificial screen masking: the real construction Neo-classic Forms 247
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