Inside Out Library · Explore

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 73

An illustration from The Parthenon; an essay on the mode by which light was introduced into Greek and Roman temples, 1883, leaf 73
24.—Structure over a Fountain.(From the Frau9ois Vase.) … r^ f 1. 25.—Temple in Antis. (From the Francois Vase.) a secret we should not otherwise be aware of. It seems the Greeks in a very earlyage used a bracket capital, which we should certainly expect they would, in a23urely carpentering age, but all trace of this is lost in the earliest examples…

Parthenon (Athens, Greece) · Temples · Lighting

Internet Archive · Boston Library Consortium · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Parthenon; an essay on the mode by which light was introduced into Greek and Roman temples

More like this