Identifier: storyofarchitect00math (find matches)
Title: The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863-
Subjects: Architecture -- History
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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# WU *=P 1 h J 1 1l :rtE :Li — iU :s- ; \ JC-JL! iSF^^11^ Fig. 67.—Palace of Diocletian at Spalato. was crossed at right angles by another similar streetleading from the brazen and iron gates, thus divid-ing the whole edifice in four equal parts (Fig. 67). The northern portion has been so mutilated thatthe truth of restoration becomes problematical ; butthe whole southern portion (Plate XXIV) is still fairly
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Pi ah XXIV.—Southern portion of palace at Spalato. ROMAN TEMPLES. 197 intact. This section was devoted to the palace, andcontained a magnificent suite of state apartmentsoverlooking the water, the Temples of Vesta and JEs.culapius, the great baths and private rooms of theemperor, and a superb seaward gallery extendingfive hundred and fifteen feet in length. Ostentatious though Spalato must have been, itwas certainly vast, strong, and splendid ; and its verysize and treatment give us a most exalted idea ofwhat the splendour of the imperial palace at Romemust have been. Temples. Roman temples were by no means confined tothe Latin capital, nor indeed to Italy itself. Numberless examples were scattered over south-ern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa ; andthe ruins of many splendid specimens still exist atBaalbec, Palmyra, Nimes, Athens, and other foreigncities that came under the Roman yoke. The temples in the city of Rome, however, aresufficiently typical to illustrate the bea

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