The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 231
attered over an area of thirtyacres, and consisted of a square of buildings, someeleven hundred and fifty feet each way, inclosinga garden. From the sides of the square were twocurved projections containing porticoes, lecture 208 ETRURIA AND ROME. rooms, gymnasia, etc., and before it ran a porchand… … 300 400 COO TOO Fig. 74.—The Thermae of Diocletian. the garden rose the main architectural mass, moremagnificent in size than the English Houses of Par-liament. It was occupied by the principal plungesand baths, by cool courts adorned with fresco andmosaic, and by marble galleries with purple…
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