The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 188
FlG. 54.—Temple of Nike Apteros or Wingless Victory at Athens. A cella and two porches of four columns each arethe principal component parts, forming a beautifulspecimen of the Ionic order, though time has robbed NIKE APT EROS CONTINUED. 165 it of its cornice. But a band of bas-reliefs upon… … Fig. 55.—The Erectheion at Athens. columns with their nine diameters of height is quiteas attractive in its own way as the splendid strengthand inertia of the Doric supports of six. Here also, as in all Athenian work, may be seenthe admirable manner in which the Greeks composedwith sunlight and all…
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