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Show Stucco Used Long Ago to Beautify Temples The homebuilder of today is perhaps apt to think of stucco as more or less of an innovation, something very new and modern. But stucco,' like many other things of beauty, had its beginnings begin-nings back in the dim Dark ages. The temple of Apollo at Bassai In Greece, built about 470 B. C. of yellow sand stone, was faced entirely, both inside and out, with stucco. The stucco was an ideal ground for the decorative polychrome painting which at that period of Grecian history had reached a very high degree of beauty. Not only the wall but also the temple pavements pave-ments were made of a specially resistant resist-ant stucco and stained in various patterns pat-terns with gay pigments. As almost all early art was in the decorative field It would have been very difficult for the artists of those bygone days to have progressed very far without some material of the type of stucco to provide pro-vide the groundwork for their artistic labors. We are now using these same decorative schemes on the walls of the modern home, perhaps soon we shall be using them on the floors as well. |