The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 238
wroughtin white marble picked out in colour by cushions ofpurple, vermilion, and cloth of gold. Gay tapestriedawnings, Venetian masts, garlands of roses, also lentcolour to the scene, while fair young girls and Bi- AMPHITHEATRES CONTINUED. 215 thynian boys dressed as Ganymedes, Hermese,nymphs, and… … Fig. 77.—The Colosseum. Section and elevati ion. exhaled a pleasing fraicheur and purified the taintedair, while over all brooded the great velarium or sail,which in the case of Neros amphitheatre was pow-dered with golden constellations and bore the chariotof Phcebus embroidered thereon. All this,…
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