ocr: bands of crenelations or of "crow steps" that recall Phoenician or even Assyrian designs, through bizarre, semiclassical facades with applied pilasters and capitals, architraves and pediments in a pseudo-Greek fashion, to great Hamboyant Baroque-like tombs embel- lished with every architectural and sculptural device known to the classical architect. It is interesting to observe, however, that even in the case of the last the most ornate and "classical" of the tombs-the Oriental element has not entirely disappeared. Many of them show traces of having originally had masonry buildings and large o ...
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