The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 180
eps andsurmounted by a cclla girt by columns, eight (carrv-ing a gable or pediment) on each front, and seventeenon ( ach sitU-, every column being nearly six diametersin height. A vestibule at either end within the peri-style afforded a cool retreat for the faithful, and thewhole interior of the… … > <L> en o <u .J3 > p X I58 GREECE. high relief, one portraying Zeus presenting hisdaughter to the dwellers on Olympus, the other acontest between the virgin goddess and Poseidon forthe naming of the city (Plate XVIII). Ninety-two bas-reliefs, delicate as cameo carvings,filled the…
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