An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 1395
eight to thepoint of the pediment is 35 feet. The pediments and acroteria were adorned with not lesstlian thirty-four Parian stiitucs representing the two Trojan M-ars, in whieli the AiandiBwere engaged more especially. These sculptures are now at Berlin, but casts of tliem,placed in models of the… … iig. 14.58. The Parthenon ut Athens. Fig. 1458 is a representation of the west front of the temple of Minerva, commonlycalled the Parthenon, at Athens. It is an example of the rare arrangement of theoctartyle peripteral, the sides have seventeen columns. Tiie top stop mea.sures 10r336English feet…
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