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Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas Roger, d 1903 Slater, John
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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smallest portico ofthe Erechthoium, and in the enriched columns of theTemple of Diana at Ephesus. Sculpture had alreadyLeen so employed in Egypt, and was often so used in latertimes; but tlic best opportunity for the displ;iy of tin;finest qualities of thesculptors art is such anone as the pediments, &c.,of tlie great Doric templesallbrded. There is little room fordoubting that all theGreek temples were richlydecorated in colours, buttraces and indications areall that remain: these,however, are sufiicicut toprove that a very largeamount of colour was cm-ployed, and that probably ornaments (Fi^s. 105 to 120) were painted upon many ofthose surfaces which were left plain by the mason,especially on the cornices, and that mosaics (Fig. 87) andcoloured marbles, and even gilding, Avere freely used.There is also ground for believing that as the use ofcarved enrichments increased with the increasing adop-tion of the Ionic and Corinthian styles, less use wn<5 midoof painted decorations.
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Fig. .J.—The Aca.ntiilS Leap. 130 CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. A rch itedural Cliaradcr. Ob;crvations whicli liavc been made during the course ofthis and the previous chapters will have gone far to pointout the characteristics of Greek art. An archaic andalmost forbidding severity, with heavy proportions and

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