. Architecture, classic and early Christian . The Temple of Vesta at ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. ArtCHITECTUEE may be described as at itsbest, and when Ave talk of the architecture of anycity or country we mean its best, noblest, or most beautifulbuildings; and we imply by the use of the word that thesebuildings possess merits which entitle them to rank asworks of art. The architecture of the civilised world can be bestunderstood by considering the great buildings of each im-portant nation separately. The features, ornaments, andeven forms of ancient buildi
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . The Temple of Vesta at ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. ArtCHITECTUEE may be described as at itsbest, and when Ave talk of the architecture of anycity or country we mean its best, noblest, or most beautifulbuildings; and we imply by the use of the word that thesebuildings possess merits which entitle them to rank asworks of art. The architecture of the civilised world can be bestunderstood by considering the great buildings of each im-portant nation separately. The features, ornaments, andeven forms of ancient buildings differed just as the speech,or at any rate the literature, differed. Each nation wrotein a different language, though the books may have been 2 ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE. devoted to tlie same aims; and precisely in the same wayeach nation built in a style of its own, even if the build-ings may have been similar in the purposes they had toserve. The division of the subject into the architecture ofEgypt, Greece, Eome, &c., is therefore the most naturalone to follow. But
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