Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 64
given thearchitectural ornament of the Romans. After the IV century,B.C., Greek architecture underwent a decline. As time wenton, this decline became more and more precipitate, until in the Icentury, B.C., the art, especially in Asia Minor, had sunk to thelowest depth of debasement. The technical… … III. i3.-^Sectio>»^^^-n.R ROMAN DESIGN was the ever-growing taste for colossal edifices. Temples ofunheard-of size were erected, and those colonnaded streets,miles in length, which later became so typical of Roman Syria,were first laid out. In short, for refinement and delicacy, wassubstituted…
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