The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 63
the temples of Sicily andSouthern Italy (P^stum, Selinus, andAgrigentum), is called Doric, becausethe ancients believed it was inventedby the Dorians. In the Doric orderthe column was not very lofty; it wascrowned by a simple capital, composedof a part that formed an expandingcurve and was called… … FIG. 6l.—TEMPLE OF NIKE APTEKOS, ON THEACROPOLIS. Lateral view. beautiful specimen on the AthenianAcropolis (Fig. 6i), the column is moreslender, and it is crowned by a capitalwhich is like a cushion with volutes.Finally, the Corinthian order, whichwas chiefly used in the Roman period,as also…
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