Identifier: architectureclas00smituoft (find matches)
Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas Roger, d 1903 Slater, John
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r^^s;^^=^ Pig. 8G.—Metope froii the Partuenox. CoNptior beiweek A CeXIAUK AXi; 0^E OF TUB LaPITH^ more strength than grace, marks the earliest Greek build-ings of which Ave have any fragments remaining. Dignity,sobrietj^, refinement, and beauty are the qualities of theworks of the best period. The latest buildings weremore rich, more ornate, and more slender in their pro-portions, and to a certain extent less severe. Cr.EEIv. 131 ^(ost carefully studied jiroportions prevailed, and weiewrought out to a pitch of completeness and reiinemeutwhich is truly astouudiug. Symmetry was the all bub
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Tig. Sr.—Mosaic feom iue Temple of Zeus, Olympia. invariable law of composition. Tet in certam resi)octs—■as, for example, the spacing aiul position of the columns—a degree of freedom Avas enjoyed which Eonian archi- K 2

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