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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 163

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5 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT certain classes of structures, and reliefs in panels,spandrels and other defined spaces; (4) the chromaticeffects of colored marbles and granites in columns, wainscoting andpavements; (5) mosaic of glass ormarble in floors andceilings; (6) stucco-relief in delicatepatterns,… … Fig. 1G4. RojiAx AacH (Arch of Titus). variety of the Roman buildings and structural deviceslent itself to a corresponding variety of decorative ef-fects in which the purely decorative use of variousstructural features played a prominent part. Pilas-ters and engaged columns with their entablatures,…

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