Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 257
mplicityin architectural formswas a feature of theGreek Revival, and theGreek porticoes andcolonnades were every-where copied and applied to modern buildings. Manywere even made in direct imitation of the shape of theGreek temples, as numerous churches and public buildingsstill attest. By the last… … FiG. 162.—The Angel of Death. Detail of the Tomb of Clement XIII. in St. Peters. By Canova. The Greek Revival of the Eighteenth Century. 249 spired by an ideal of republican institutions drawn fromthe study of Plutarchs Lives, which was the mostpopular book of the time. In ladies dress the style…
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