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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval
Publisher: New York, The Baker and Taylor Company
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Pantheon, Rome ROMAN DESIGN was the ever-growing taste for colossal edifices. Temples ofunheard-of size were erected, and those colonnaded streets,miles in length, which later became so typical of Roman Syria,were first laid out. In short, for refinement and delicacy, wassubstituted coarseness and display. Now the architects of imperial Rome, in adopting Greekornament, adopted it not from the pure examples of the V cen-tury, but from the late debased types of Asia Minor. The Ro-mans are usually accused of debasing those types still further;as a matter of fact, however, the worst examples of Asia Minorare practically indistinguishable from Roman work. Theseforms the Romans fixed into a cut-and-dried canon from whichminor variations were possible, but no real progress. The orders became the basis of all architectural ornamenta-tion. Columns, originally mere utilitarian props, had beenhappily developed by the artistic Greeks into features combin-ing in a perfectly consistent whole ornamen

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