Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 186
-cotta model of a small temple is peculiar indesign (Fig. 218) ; it was found in Cyprus, and may havebeen the model of the shrine sacred to Astarte. As beforementioned, Phoenician architecture, from the few remainsof it that have been found, consists of borrowed forms fromother nations, and if any… … Fig. 218.—Alodel of a Small Temple, in teira-cotta, Louvre. (P. & C ) hand, decidedly Assyrian in every detail, and is a happyexample of architectural proportion. The fragment of an entablature from a temple atBy bios (Fig. 220) is of a later date, and has for design anddecoration of the…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Architecture -- History
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
