The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 217
adaptationsof these in stone, metal, and wood, contributed to do-mestic comfort. Of Roman palaces only two specimens remain tous: that of the Caesars on the Palatine hill, now com-pletely ruined, and the abode of Diocletian at Spalato,in Dalmatia, to which the emperor retired to spendthe autumn of… … o 4—» aIt j. u 5 11 uu ll tfl -3 V •3 c: o M rt <— 0 S H o 1 * w ■ • > c O1 V 1 i—t 1 \ — k-i X X - H ■ < 1 -1 1 2m THE PALACE AT SPA LA TO. 195 The palace at Spalato (Fig. 67) was a great for-tified building, rectangular in shape, covering nineacres of ground. Sixteen towers flanked the…
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