. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. PAUT OF THE BOUXDING WALT. OF TIIF FOKIM OF XFRVA ( FOIUM THANSI-TOUnMi noAIF : TlIF MOHFItX :VFL AT l\Vi:.\rV FKFT AROVE ANcii:.\i rA\i:.\, Plan of that part of Rome which contains the Imperial Fora. Shaded partsare those covered by modem buildings. Later Greek and Roman Design gives a trustworthy plan of the buildingscalled by the name of Trajan and builtduring his reign and that of his suc-cessor, Hadrian. The modern buildingsand streets are shown, and it is seen fromthese how the actu
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. PAUT OF THE BOUXDING WALT. OF TIIF FOKIM OF XFRVA ( FOIUM THANSI-TOUnMi noAIF : TlIF MOHFItX :VFL AT l\Vi:.\rV FKFT AROVE ANcii:.\i rA\i:.\, Plan of that part of Rome which contains the Imperial Fora. Shaded partsare those covered by modem buildings. Later Greek and Roman Design gives a trustworthy plan of the buildingscalled by the name of Trajan and builtduring his reign and that of his suc-cessor, Hadrian. The modern buildingsand streets are shown, and it is seen fromthese how the actual plan can only be in-ferred by that which has been discoveredby digging here and there, or by investiga-tions in cellars of modern structures. Stillthe general type of the old design can beseized : a great open square, 270 by 370feet and this surrounded on three sides bya covered portico fift}^ feet wide with tworows of great columns in addition to thewall outside, which itself was pierced bymany openings filled with columns in antis}Across one end of this great square, stretchedthe Ulpian basilica, as long as the wholesquare was wide, including its portico, andhalf as wide as that: in other words, theopen interior of the basilica was ab
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