The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 76
tted dome over a pleasingly plainbase, the latter being only broken to emphasize thelines above. A pure white portico claims the middle distance,having simple shafts and bracket caps, yet flaming TEMPLE OF BAROLLI. 53 all dishevelled above, in a riot of complex sculpture;while before all in the… … Fig. 20.—Temple of Barolli. ture. But the most successful feature of the wholeis the arrangement of contrast between plainness andelaboration, without which neither is ever of theslightest value. This seems to have been the mostdifficult truth for all Orientals to grasp, and the 54 INDIA,…
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