Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 75
lost their meaning. For the Romansthemselves, who inmany other w^ a y slacked the higher re-finement of the earlierGreeks, we have a his-toric point of viewwhich does not de-mand that they shouldhave been more thanthey were. Moreover,we know that although Fig. 23.—Early French Renaissance, Engaged… … Criticism of Renaissance Architecture. 67 solid, massive, powerful, and imposing, and their use ofthe Greek colonnades in surface ornament was not such asto impair these effects, and was in its way certainly deco-rative and picturesque. In other words they essentially,
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