Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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pavonazzctto; by aningenious mode of colouring these columns are made to harmonizewith those consisting of the rarer material. Above the first liesa second lower story, the architectural arrangements of whichmay be recognised from Adlers ingenious attempt at reconstruc-tion (see Fig. 344). Its original decoration consisted of tablets y 2 3?4 TEMPLE-ENCL OSURES. of coloured marble, the effect being similar to that of a sequence ofnarrow pilasters. This original decoration has later been changedfor another. Above the chief cornice which crowns this story, andat the same time terminates the circular walls, rises the cupola,divided into five stripes, each of which contains twenty-five caskets beautifully worked and in excellent perspective. Inthe centre at the top is an opening, forty feet in diameter, throughwhich the light enters the building. Near this opening a frag-ment has been preserved of the bronze ornamentation which onceseems to have covered the whole cupola. Even without these
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elegant decorations the building still excites the spectatorsadmiration as one of the masterpieces of Roman genius. 68. The temple-enclosures of the Romans were, as a rule, stillmore splendid than the periboloi of the Greeks. Although fewin number, the remaining specimens of these surrounding courtsare sufficient to give us a distinct idea of the whole arrangement.The original purpose of these courts was to seclude the sanctuaryfrom the profane bustle of the world, for which purpose theenclosure of the space immediately in front of the temple wassufficient. Several enclosures of this kind have been preservedat Pompeii. In front of a prostylos with a colonnade projectingby two columns, commonly designated as the temple of iEsculapius, TEMPLE OF VENUS AT POMPEII. 3-5 is situated a simple court enclosed on two sides by a bare wall,only the third side fronting the temple being adorned with aportico of two columns. Another still smaller sanctuary, with-out columns, at Pompeii, formerly des

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