Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 266
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 … behind (Fig. 25). To speak of this scheme as if it wereborrowed from the Greeks as a frontispiece to a piece ofnative construction, is toignore the true place oftrabeate construction inthe architecture of all theMediterranean peoplesIt is as much native atRome as at Athens, andif used as…
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