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Excerpt from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1: January, 1895 The materials used in construction are mostly red and white marbles, used with a fine color sense, and the desire for abundance of color was frequently fur ther gratified by painting the exterior walls with elaborate pictorial decorations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.