Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 138
VI. Of the bronzegates, grilles, lamps and other adjuncts of these build-ings we have no remains. The painted ornament of architecture comprised (a)molding ornaments (Figure 142, page 113) ; (b) ceil-ing-panels (Fig. 143) ; (c) solid color apphed to tri-glyphs (blue), metopes(red) (Plate VI, 33),… … Fig. 143. Paixted Panel, CeilingOP Pleroma, Parthenon. the exact tones of the colors used in a, b and c, owing tothe faded condition of such vestiges of color as still ex-ist. JNIodern restorers usually represent them as some-what brilliant (Plate VI, 33-35) : perhaps they were lessintense than…
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