The decorative periods . ROMAN—POMPEIIAN Roman—753 B. €-455 A. —100 B. A. D. THE Roman Empire, founded 750 years B. C, was the fourthgreat empire of antiquity. The Romans, for want of an artistic style of their own, weredependent at first upon the Greeks, but instead of following thesimplicity of that style they exaggerated the decorative treat-ment. In accordance with their love for pomp and splendor, Ro-mans had a predilection for the Corinthian order, which theyelaborated with fine artistic feeling; the Panthenon at Rome isa good example. We find the Roman style full of do
The decorative periods . ROMAN—POMPEIIAN Roman—753 B. €-455 A. —100 B. A. D. THE Roman Empire, founded 750 years B. C, was the fourthgreat empire of antiquity. The Romans, for want of an artistic style of their own, weredependent at first upon the Greeks, but instead of following thesimplicity of that style they exaggerated the decorative treat-ment. In accordance with their love for pomp and splendor, Ro-mans had a predilection for the Corinthian order, which theyelaborated with fine artistic feeling; the Panthenon at Rome isa good example. We find the Roman style full of dolphins and winged horsesand volutes, extravagant but beautiful in decorative different forms of leaves are idealized in a manner so thattheir natural origin is hardly to be recognized. The acanthus,oak leaves, laurel, pineapple, vine, palm, ivy, poppy and richfloral, fruits and figure work were much employed. It is difficult to treat of the Renaissance Period withoutbearing well in mind all these
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