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‘The eclecticism that informed Hellenistic jewellery was equally characteristic of architecture. The old orders disintegrated, their parts being treated as interchangeable, while Ionic and Corinthian developed at the expense of the less decorative Doric. Flamboyance was the fashion....’

– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1] 158

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