. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f good architecture is entirelyobliterated. Its profiles are vicious, and its ornaments debased and overcharged. 196. The art was somewhat resuscitated luuler Alexander Severus, but it was fast follow-ing the fate of the emi)ire in the West, and bad become almost lifeless under Valerianand bis son Gallienus, whose arch is an index to its state in his reign. The number of com-petitors for the purple, and tlie incursions of the barbarians, were felt.
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f good architecture is entirelyobliterated. Its profiles are vicious, and its ornaments debased and overcharged. 196. The art was somewhat resuscitated luuler Alexander Severus, but it was fast follow-ing the fate of the emi)ire in the West, and bad become almost lifeless under Valerianand bis son Gallienus, whose arch is an index to its state in his reign. The number of com-petitors for the purple, and tlie incursions of the barbarians, were felt. Aurelian andProbus suspended its total annihilation ; but their reigns were unfortunately too short todo it substantial service. The extraordinary structures at Baalbec and Palmyra have been-eferred, on the authority of a fragment of John of Antioch, surnamed Malala, to the ageof Antoninus Pius ; but we are inclined to think the style places them a little later thanthat period. Baalbec. or, as its Syrian meaning imports, the City of Baal, or the Sini, issituate at the north-eastern extremity of tiie valley of ISecat or Beka, near that place. Fig. tl2. wliere the two lAbanons unite, about fifty miles to the north-west of Damascus. Thetirst traveller who described it with accuracy was IMaundrell, in his Journey from Alep])o to Jerusalem, in 1697. It has, however, been since visited, as wellas Palmyra, by Messrs. Wood andDawkins, in 1751, and by at a later period. Theprincipal building, the temple, isof a rectangular form, and is seatedin the centre of the western ex-tremity of a large (|uadrangularenclosure, two of whose sides wereparallel to those of the temple; andlarallel to its front was tiie this was attached an hexagonalcourt, serving as a vestibule, infront of wiiicb was the grand en-trance portico. The length of thequadrangle is about 360 ft. andbreadth about 350 ft. ( See/f/. 11 9. )The temple, marked A, is, in roundnumbers, 200 ft. in length, and10()
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