Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 97
lumns onthe side, and measured 220 by 100 feet on the top of thestylobate. It was the work of Ictinus and Callicrates, builtto enshrine the noble statue of the goddess by Phidias, astanding chryselephantine figure forty feet high. It wasthe masterpiece of Greek architecture not only by reason ofits… … FIG. 35. — PLAN OF ERECHTHEUM. with masterly skill the Panathenaic procession ; the sculpt-ured groups in the metopes, and the superb assemblages ofOlympic and symbolic figures of colossal size in the pedi-ments, added their majesty to theperfection of the architecture.Here also the horizontal…
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