ch a high degree of perfection, they made ARCH OF CONSTANTINE. thought, and liberal use of paintings and painted ornamentation. The remains at though every building was more or less intended to be ornamented Pompeii, as well as many references in the writings of Roman authors with sculpture, these… … tural connection. They were ornament with architectural form. were intended to produce the effect of a park of considerable dimen¬ It can readily be conceived that an architecture in which the sions. Sometimes there are mural paintings proper, not large enough colored decorations were used on such…
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