Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . ^ Roman church of to-day we find thewalls and pillars stuck about with figures, slabs, andso-called decorations to such an extent that the finerlines and proportions are often ruined. The ancientRoman likewise was commonly under the impressionthat the more decoration you added, the more vn ROME: THE IMPERIAL CITY 113 magnificent was the building. There were doubtlessmany buildings in simpler and purer taste, probablyexecuted by Greek artists under the authority ofsome Roman who happened to possess a finer judg-. FiG. 21. — So-called Temple of the Si
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . ^ Roman church of to-day we find thewalls and pillars stuck about with figures, slabs, andso-called decorations to such an extent that the finerlines and proportions are often ruined. The ancientRoman likewise was commonly under the impressionthat the more decoration you added, the more vn ROME: THE IMPERIAL CITY 113 magnificent was the building. There were doubtlessmany buildings in simpler and purer taste, probablyexecuted by Greek artists under the authority ofsome Roman who happened to possess a finer judg-. FiG. 21. — So-called Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli. ment or less self-assertiveness. Nevertheless thefault of over-elaboration is distinctly Roman. We must not omit to say that, besides temples ofthis typical rectangular form, there were others ofa round shape, encircled by columns, like thatgraceful structure at Tivoli commonly, though mis-takenly, known as the temple of the Sibyl, and that 114 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD chap. small building which still exists in an impoverishedcondition near the Tiber, and which used to bear theerroneous title of the temple of Vesta. Others againwere simply round and domed, like the true templeof \esta in the Forum, or the superb and impressivePanthedn in the Campus Martins. So far as thebare round was broken in these cases, it was eitherby a pillared portico, as with the Pantheon, or byengaged columns and ornament, as with the truetemple of Vesta. The mention of the temple of Vesta reminds usthat it is time to face about, and, passing behind thetemp
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