Identifier: 2encyclopaediaof00gwiluoft (find matches)
Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Book I.
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dens, and had doors in the middle. It wasmade long, and broad enough to hold twotriclinia opposite to each other. The Greekoccus was not, however, iniich used in Italy.The ptJiiicot/teca (j)icture room), wliere pos-sihle, faced the north : both this and the hib-Uothtca (library), whose aspect was east, donot re()uire explanation. The exedrcn of theRoman houses were large apartments forthe general purposes of society. The upperstories of the house, the chief being onthe groimd floor, were occupied by slaves,freedmen, and the lower branches of thefamily. Sometimes there was a solarium(terrace), which was, in fine weather, muchresorted to. 25:3. Fig. 136. is a plan of the house ofIansa at Pompeii, by reference to which thereader will gain a tolerable notion of tliesituation of the different apartments whereofwe have been speaking. A is the prothyrum,which was paved with mosaic. R B B B, Tuscan atrium, in whose centre is the com-pluviuni or basin (b) for the reception of the water from th

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