Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 76
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, … Fig. 24.—Ancient Roman Ruin. Theatre of Marcellus, showing Engaged Columns and Entablature. according to their own needs and character, built sensiblyand artistically, without claiming or showing the higherrefinement of the Greeks, whose forms they adopted andused.^^ For the architecture of the…
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