The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 215
The womens quar-ters were not separated from those of the men, as inGreece. I. )2 ETRURIA AND ROME. Externally, the architectural treatment was ex-tremely simple, for the Roman regarded his home asa place to be lived in, and not to be looked at fromthe outside ; and hence it consisted only of a… … FlG. 66.—Atrium of a Pompeiian house. gons of precious marble. Statues of gods, ances-tors, and heroes were grouped about the rooms andhalls ; and masks [imagines) of distinguished membersof the family decorated the frieze, and peered fromamaria or open presses on the walls. The best ex-amples of…
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