Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 46
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… … O u 02 ROMAN CONSTRUCTION Such, in outline, was Greek architecture, and such the formsit bequeathed to the later 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…
Architecture, Medieval
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