Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 282
tus is the most refined, but during the reignsof both Trajan and Hadrian, there was evidenced a Renaissance ortendency to return to the beauty and purity of the earUer period. Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens. It is well, then, to rememberthat the Temple of Jupiter Olympus at Athens, begun about… … Fip. 127. Karly Covinthi;in Capital. sutius, although it is likely that the worl-ananship of many of thesecapitals belongs to a much later date. The colunms of this templewere 58 feet in height. An early Corinthian capital (Fig. 127), taken from the churchof S. Niccolo in Carcere, shows a capital,…
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