A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 82
culuiiiiis is then lud 3^ times or fewer details. But it is still a matter of dispute what portions of the monument, very nearly .j| diameter if any, were left of the natural hue of the that of the entablature. The metopes, as spotless Ientelie marlde. or were merely high as the frieze, are nearly… … Fig. 25.—Athens, Parthenon. of propoilions, its unapproaelud iierfec-tion of e.xeeution, and the magnitieence,yet unerring suliordination to general ef-fect, of its decoration, the {ui-tlieiioii wasthe supreme work that (ireik genius cre-ated. Its scnl]itures to-day, fragmentaryand iiiuriiated as…
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