A history of art for classes, art-students, and tourists in Europe (1889)
Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · New York, Chicago, A.S. Barnes & company · leaf 104
42. Ruined houses and colonnades, Pompeii. 43. The Porta Nigra, Trier. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. 79 The Domestic Architecture continued as in earlier antiquity, andin modern Oriental countries, without external ornament or archi- … Apartment in a Pompeian House. tectural pretensions. Dwellings of six and seven stories were builtin Rome. Those preserved in Pompeii have only two stories. Thistown, in the vicinity of Naples, was buried under a shower of ashesfrom the volcano of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 a.d. The various apart-ments of…
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