Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 78
f architectural art. The so-calledTholos (or Treasury) of Atreus, at Mycenae, on the otherhand, shows the germs of truly artistic design (Fig. 24). Itis in reality a tomb, and is one of a large class of prehistorictombs found in almost every part of the globe, consistingof a circular stone-walled… … 46 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Though internally of domical form, its construction with horizontal beds in the masonry proves that the idea of the true dome with the bedsof each course pitched atan angle always normalto the curve of the vault,was not yet grasped. Asmall sepulchral chamberopens from…
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