Show the Ifton ians want of taste it was more in the tile architectural details thit that tho the V homami tonian want of taste showed it self and though they were at firby content to copy the greek moldings mol dings and enrich ments almost with absolute fidelity yet the roman itoman craving for richness of effect boon soon led them to cover all the various mem members bels of the entablature with elaborate surface ornament a very great artistic mistake as the plain flat moldings mol dings a and ila fi lletA catching the light strongly served a very important purpose in setting off bv contrast the lines of dark hollows and anzi delicate surface enrichments enrich ments which the greeks applied to a few of the members only the slight commencement of this de cadence in taste can be seen even in the very splendid and well designed cornice of the temple of concord it has progressed further in the cornice of the temple ol 01 vespasian Vesp aslan in which one of the corona is cut u t into short upright flutings flu tings and the lo 10 low W n 1 egg and dart member is covered with el blab a 4 orate surface ornament later on in ili the second and third centuries this excessive use of ornament was carried further still till every single member in the cornice WAS often covered with enrichments enrich ments leaving no plain surfaces to relle relieve v the eye or to ea give bands of bright light A remarkable example of this is the very beautieu beautifully fu ily ex eluted cornice taken fro from m s some 0 m 0 b earlier building which wa was us used e d b by y mux dentius to decorate the door of f the temple to mains his son romulus remains Ite of ancient rome tt |