The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 226
of Trajan at Bene-vento. The two first are the bestknown; that of Titus waserected in commemorationof the emperors conquest ofJerusalem and Syria, andhence no Jew ever passesunder it. In compositionit consists of one openingframed by the Compositeorder, and is said to havebeen the first arch… … Fig. 72.—Column of Trajanat Rome. Another mode of doing 204 ETRURIA AND ROME. honour to heroes and emperors (who of course wereheroes so long as they lived) was by erecting votivecolumns. The most celebrated columns of Romewere those of Trajan (Fig. 72) and Marcus Aurelius ;both were of the Doric…
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