The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 183
tirely to the Parthenon, soon brought theDoric style great popularity throughout Italy, Sicily,Peloponnesus, and the islands of the iEgean, andbeautiful specimens sprang up at Paestum, Agrigen-tum, Bassse, Delos, and other places. But none eversurpassed Athenes temple, which with Athens al-ways… … FlG. 53.—(.roup from the pediment of the Parthenon in the British Museum. intact, notwithstanding that the Moslems built a smallmosque within it. But in the latter year a shellfrom the Venetian artillery <>! Morosini ignited thepowder magazine which had been conveyed into thesan< tuary,…
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