An Investigation of the principles of Athenian Architecture : or the results of a recent survey conducted chiefly with reference to the optical refinements exhibited in the construction of the ancient buildings at Athens (1851)
Penrose, Francis Cranmer, Society of Dilettanti, London · printed by W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press · leaf 85
CHAPTER XII . ON THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS AT ATHENS . PLATES XXXVII , XXXVIII , XXXIX . Although the Corinthian order cannot in itself be compared in grandeur with the Doric , there is perhaps nevertheless among all the remains of antiquity no ruin more impressive than that composed by the…
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