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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 140

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le was employed for six hundred years or more, vary-ing only in its proportions and minor details. It reachedits culmination in the Parthenon (438 u.c.), and wasthe style chiefly used for temple architecture inEuropean Greece, including INIagna Graecia (SouthernItalv and Sicilv). Towards the end of… … rigmfhintedmings

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