Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 164
-ments over doors, windows and niches, recessed archesand deep ceiling-panels w^ere the chief elements ofthis pseudo-structural decoration. The combination 136 ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN ORNAMENT, I of the arch—adorned with its archivolt and keystone—with engaged columns carrying entablatures (Fig.164) was… … Fig. 165. Niche-Cap, Baalbek. and in Syria at Baalbek and Palmyra, there was, underthe Antonines and later emperors, a remarkable increasein the variety of these decorative applications of archi-tectural features. Curved and broken pediments,colonnettes on brackets, spirally fluted columns,…
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