The art reader, prepared for supplementary reading in public and private schools, with illustrations of some of the masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture (1905)
Quinn, Patrick Edward, 1862-1926 · Boston, A. W. Elson & co. · leaf 62
igures are used as architectural supports, taking the placeof the Ionic pillars employed elsewhere in the structure.In Egyptian architecture there are many examples ofhuman figures sculptured against temple columns, but inthe Erechtheum the figures are themselves supportingthe architrave. The forms… … u w w H O Xu :^O Oh <
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