Western Association of Architects (U.S.) · Chicago : Inland Pub. Co. · leaf 194
e is Corinthian Capital from the Temple of Apollo Didymteus at Miletus. ( Rosengarten .) the temple of Jupiter Olympus, a Roman temple at Athens, The capital is well known. It was the most ornate of all commenced in the second century b.c., and finished by Hadrian. It was very large, 171 feet by… … Monument of Lysicrates. ( Rosengarten ). The Grecian temple was usually built on an eminence, known to have existed in Greece. In the hands of the Asiatics it was the bell¬ and well detached from other buildings. This is one reason shaped capital of Egypt, ornamented with the acanthus leaf why the…
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