A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . and laid the fovuidations ofthe new anil much larger Jloiiasticnn, Vol. I., p. In Greek arch;eology, a figurehaving the head, or head and bust, of a godresting upon a plain, blocklike shaft. It issupposed that the use of these figures is ofvery remote antiquity. By extension, andespecially at Athens, any four-cornered pillarfinished at top with an indication, howeverslight, of a human head; such figures were con-sidered as inviolable on account of their usein marking b(.iundarie
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . and laid the fovuidations ofthe new anil much larger Jloiiasticnn, Vol. I., p. In Greek arch;eology, a figurehaving the head, or head and bust, of a godresting upon a plain, blocklike shaft. It issupposed that the use of these figures is ofvery remote antiquity. By extension, andespecially at Athens, any four-cornered pillarfinished at top with an indication, howeverslight, of a human head; such figures were con-sidered as inviolable on account of their usein marking b(.iundaries of landed property(called also Term; Terminal Figure; see alsoGaine). HERMITAGE, THE. A jialace of theCzars of Russia ; built by Catherine II., and con-nected with the Winter Palace, at Saint Peters-burg. It is celebrateil for its great picturegallery, library, and collection of Greek vases,arms, and other works of ; of Salamis built the temple ofMars in the region of the Circus Flaminius inRome. This temple was probably foundetl by376 PLATE XVI. A building of privnte ownership witli apartmentsto rent, built in the rei^n of Henry IV., and forniins:a part of the interesting Place des Vosges. Thefront ijiven in the plate forms the end of the narrowKae Birague which enters the open Place through HENRI QIx\TRE ARCHITECTURE the archway in the middle of the facade, but thefront on the Ilace is similar. This work, in redbrick and white stone, is characteristic of the epochand style of the succeeding reign (Louis Treize),which retains many of its features. HBRMOGENES Brutus Galheeus in the year 139 , and cou-taiued a .statue by Scopas (.see Scopas). Brunn. (rescIiiIUe der i/riechischen A»«.s(/C. HBRMOGENES; architect. All architect of Asia Minor who is nieuticiuedfrequently by Vitruvius witliout any iudicatiuuof tlie precise time in \vhich he lived. Histenijile of Diana at Magnesia is mentioned byVitruvius as an of a i)seu(lcidipteral
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