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Pictures in the Land of Temples; reproductions of a series of lithographs made in the Land of Temples, March-June 1913; (1915)

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia, Lippincott · leaf 124

An illustration from Pictures in the Land of Temples; reproductions of a series of lithographs made in the Land of Temples, March-June 1913;, 1915, leaf 124 — XXIII STORM BEHIND THE ACROPOLIS XXIII STORM BEHIND THE ACROPOLIS AND when the clouds of a spring afternoon gatherbehind the Acropolis, you realise why it was builton that barren rock : because the builders saw it would bethe most impressive shrine on this earth. !.. … XXIVTHE PROPYLAEA, ATHENS XXIV THE PROPYLAEA. ATHENS THIS is pure architecture; it interested me. I triedto draw it, as it looked to me ; but no draughts-man—no painter, either—will ever get that wondrous warmglow which seems to come from within the walls and suffusethem with light and colour. L

Temples · Greece -- Description and travel

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