. Pompeii : its life and art . mposing entrances, large and lofty atriums, andhigh doors opening upon the atrium ; the shops in front alsowere high, and in two stories. In point of detail, the architecture of the Tufa Period revealsless of strength and symmetry than its stately proportions andmodest material would lead us to expect. The ornamentationis a debased descendant of the Greek. It is characterized bysuperficial elegance, together with an apparent striving aftersimplicity and an ill-concealed poverty of form and the ornamental forms still manifest fine Greek feeling,they l
. Pompeii : its life and art . mposing entrances, large and lofty atriums, andhigh doors opening upon the atrium ; the shops in front alsowere high, and in two stories. In point of detail, the architecture of the Tufa Period revealsless of strength and symmetry than its stately proportions andmodest material would lead us to expect. The ornamentationis a debased descendant of the Greek. It is characterized bysuperficial elegance, together with an apparent striving aftersimplicity and an ill-concealed poverty of form and the ornamental forms still manifest fine Greek feeling,they lack delicacy of modelling and vigor of expression. Theyare taken from Greek religious architecture, but all appreciationof the three orders as distinct types, each suited for a differentenvironment, has disappeared. In consequence, we often finda mixture of the orders, a blending of Doric, Ionic, and Corin-thian elements; and still more frequently do we meet with amarked departure from the original proportions. ARCHITECTURE 43. Portico of the Thus in the court of the temple of Apollo and in the firstperistyle of the house of the Faun we see Ionic columns sup-porting a Doric entablature ; in the house of the Black Wall,Doric columns with an Ionic entablature. The Doric architrave,contrary to rule,, ap-pears divided into twostripes, not only in thecolonnade of the Fo-rum, where the stripesrepresent a differenceof material, but also inthe house of the Faun,where the architrave isrepresented as com-posed of single blocksreaching from columnto column (p. 51). Inthe Palaestra (p. 159), and in many private houses, the Doriccolumn was lengthened, in a way quite out of harmony with theoriginal conception, in order to make it conform to the prevail-ing desire for height and slender proportions. The shaft no-where appears with the pronounced entasis and strong diminu-tion characteristic of the type, and the capital has lost the breadthand graceful outline of the Greek Doric. The Ionic col
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