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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f architecture that we find everywhere,—in thegates of Volterra and Perugia, the tomb fa9adesof ISTorchia and Castel dAsso, the temple terra-cottas of Falerii, Luna and Telamon, the sar-cophagi of Volterra and Perugia, the domicaland vaulted tombs of Veii, Cortona, Vetulonia,Chiusi, Quinto Fiorentino and other sites; thechamber tombs of Tarquinii (Corneto), Vulci,Caere (Cervetri), Volsinii (Orvieto) and Perusia,All these are invaluable in a reconstructionof early Roman architectural and decorativework of all classes. Nor must it be forgottenthat we start with the obvious fact that themodels for the Servian wall and all its acces-sories were furnished not by Latium but byEtruria, which had already perfected the useof square-coursed masonry and of the arch andvault. The introduction of this course masonryinto Rome was attributed by the Romans them-selves to the Etruscans. Dionysius in his RomanAntiquities says that Tarquinius Priscus firstused it. This is doubtless fairly correct even
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i-^^^^^^Si^^S^^^.. > H^^-Vl^ -:.:-:^yim!%^---:::^-cgsm. ^ Reconstruction of Facade of an Etruscan Temple,according to Vitruvius (Durm) Plate XVI THT^ NEv; row. t V ROMAN CITIES 113 though the so-called Servian walls in Romeare not older than the fourth century. The Temple At the same time temples were substituted inRome for altars and open-air shrines, also inimitation of Etruscan models, because the Tus-can porticoed form in place of the Greek perip-teral scheme was followed. At Satricum, on thecontrary, the Greek model prevailed, at aboutthe same time. Still, it w^as impossible to getaway from Greek influence. The terra-cottadecorations show that archaic Greek works servedas models to the Etruscans not only in the gableand frieze sculptures but in the ornamental de-tails. The recent excavations of the temple ofApollo at Thermon in Greece, where the col-umns and entablatures and gables were of woodfaced and decorated with terra-cotta, have fullyillustrated these Greek originals. P

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