Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 69
of brick facedwith marble, the marble panels have been torn away and the ornamentalsystem does not now appear. 58 ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL ART. We have seen what debt the Eoinans owed the Greeksand yet how foreign to Greek art was their system ofarch and dome construction. To this arch constructionthe… … Fig. 34.—The Colosseum. Rome. see from engravings of the Erechtheum at Athens,which were made in the eighteenth century, that oneportion of it was decorated with ^^engaged columns.The same use appears in the Choragic Monument ofLysicrates at Athens. These instances in Greek sur- * Columns used, not…
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