Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 119
ingthe color in the latter case. Pompeii and Herculaneum fur-nish countless examples of brilliant wall-painting in whichstrong primary colors form the ground, and a semi-natu-ralistic, semi-fantastic representation of figures, architect-ure and landscape is mingled with festoons, vines, andpurely… … FIG. 50. —ROMAN CEILING PANELS. (a, From Palmyra ; b. Basilica of Con-stantine.) ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. 87 cially rich in mosaic of the kind called opus Grecanicum,executed with numberless minute cubes of stone or glass,as in the Baths of Caracalla and the Villa of Hadrian atTivoli. To the walls of…
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