The architecture of Greece & Rome; a sketch of its historic development (1902)
Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900, Spiers, Richard Phene, 1838-1916 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 63
THE ARCHAIC PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HELLAS. ^5 near Sparta (111. 15), it will be noticed that the latter are almost flat on face, and are worked on a series of receding planes, the edge of each plane being kept quite flat. To such compara- tively compromising examples we owe the origin of the metopes… … that it has been -METOPE FROM TEMPLE C AT SELINUS '. PERSEUS BEHEADS THE MEDUSA IN THE PRESENCE OF ATHENA. converted into the cathedral of the town. The cella now forms the nave of the church, and the cutting of large arched openings into the peristyle and building up walls between the columns have…
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