How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 58
sfound in the Greek temples (Fig. 8). Here this space,with the truss or beam ends showing, became the frieze.The beam ends were duplicated, ornamented, and calledtriglyphs, while the intervening spaces, or metopes, werefilled with slabs carved in relief with skulls, or shields, ortrophies of the… … FIG. 8—GREEK STONE CONSTRUCTION HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE as intimate in all parts as in this. Let us examine theParthenon as a typical example of the Greek classic, toget a clearer idea of what the main resemblances are (Fig. 9)- With the barn in mind, our first impression of the Parthenon is that…
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