The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 185
ormer theories, pre-vious to laying the foundation for his own structure. Besides, that a building of 63 feet wide in its greatestdimensions, and 140 feet high, is so awkward and ugly, and sounlike anything the ancients ever did, that I should have nohesitation in rejecting it on that account… … This done, tie takes for his model the principle of constructionadopted in the domes of Eastern architecture. Having placedeight columns in an octagon, he prolongs four sides of the octagonat pleasure, and marking oif the width of an intercolumniation,he obtains any number of intersecting points…
Classical antiquities · Archaeology
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