Daedalus, or, The causes and principles of the excellence of Greek sculpture (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts · leaf 36
4 INTRODUCTION. columns, and elongating them at pleasure, while his line of ceiling, from being angular, could never have looked well. The hypaethron of such a ceiling, exhibiting a double notch, must have appeared most awkward ; and, indeed, the form is more like that of an Etruscan tomb than that… … In the other design the hypaethral opening like¬ wise constitutes an objection ; but in this case it resembles a well, the depth and narrowness of which precludes the admission of a sufficient body of light, while from its peculiar form the upper part of the
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