The Parthenon; an essay on the mode by which light was introduced into Greek and Roman temples (1883)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 134
had they anywhere beenvisible in conjunction with the columns of the peristyle. While this was the case,the minor defect of want of exact symmetry in the position of the opaion mightvery well be disregarded, and any attempt to treat it ornamentally would havebeen quite out of place. In the woodcut… … 60.- ■AxGLE OF Roof of Pakthesox. (From Penro.se, pi. 17.) no doubt the mode in which it was effected in the smaller temples, where only aninternal metope of no great height was employed, and where the light wasprobably nearly equally diffused along the whole length of the cella. But where,as in…
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) · Temples · Lighting
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