Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 165
alse design by certain purist critics, who contrast it un-favorably with the truthful arcliitecture of the Greeli and Gothic builders. 137 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT Conventional Ornament. In developing the details of this system the Romanswere obliged to employ Greek artists and to begin withGreek… … /A/Vu-J-A AlDC?C>R/\NDiN Fig. 166. Fragment from Temple of Vespasian, in Villa Aldobrandini. aggregations of buildings as the Romans raised in theircities both in Italy and abroad—structures often many-storied and of vast dimensions—figure-sculpture wasout of the question as the chief…
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