Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 76
ty.It thus becomes an amphiprostyle, or double prostyle (Fig. 15).Thus far we have considered only convenience and utility,beyond doubt the determining considerations in the earlier day.But questions of appearance, never quite absent from the build-ers thought, became increasingly prominent. It was… … Fig. 15. — Amphiprostyle. Fig. 16. — Peristyle. (Fig. 16). This full realization of the temple ideal was attainedeven before they began to build in stone, for a peristyle templewith wooden columns is known to have existed in Olympia,though its wooden columns were one by one replaced by stone. This…
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