Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 44
the samemotive. It will also be seen that the Vitruvian scroll (Fig. 8)is related to this ornament, for if we should round all the squarecorners of Fig. 4, we should have something very closely resem-bling Fig. 8. Perhaps the most puzzling, but also one ofthe most important of Greek ornaments is… … ROMAN CONSTRUCTION Siicli, in outline, was Greek architecture, and such the formsit beciueathed to the hiter builders. Modest in its attempts,never attacking the really great problems of construction, itstill erected buildings entirely suitable for the needs of the timeand adorned with a refinement…
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