. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Kic. S?.— )N OF THi! P,):tTico OF Tnc ; Pig. 80 —Plan- of the Portico—Lookisg cp. EXAMPLES OF GREEK ORNAMENT TEi; PoailCO of the IlIE TUli CEllOG. GnuKK. i; tcciuro did not pcssoss, Hcpctition rulcil to the almostentile suppression of variety. Disclosure of the arrani^e-ment and construction of the building uas almost coni-plcto, and hardly a tra(*6 of concealment can he reigns in the earliest examples; the elaho-ration of even the most ornamental is ve
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Kic. S?.— )N OF THi! P,):tTico OF Tnc ; Pig. 80 —Plan- of the Portico—Lookisg cp. EXAMPLES OF GREEK ORNAMENT TEi; PoailCO of the IlIE TUli CEllOG. GnuKK. i; tcciuro did not pcssoss, Hcpctition rulcil to the almostentile suppression of variety. Disclosure of the arrani^e-ment and construction of the building uas almost coni-plcto, and hardly a tra(*6 of concealment can he reigns in the earliest examples; the elaho-ration of even the most ornamental is very chaste andgraceful ; and th(3 ^vh^llc eircct of Greek architecture isone of harmony, unity, and relined power. A genoial principle seldom pointed out \vhich governsthe application of enrichments to mouldings in Greekarchitecture may he cited as a good instance of the sublleyet admirable concord Avhich existed between the differentfeatures : it is as follows. Tlie oufUne of each enrichment inrelief was ordinarihj by the same line as the profleof the moulding to ichich it was applied.
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