The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . del in India—theother among the monuments of Algeria. I propose to foundmy restoration on the proportions of Greek architecture. Sofar am I from mshing to put forward some totally new idea, Ibegin by accepting the general features of a plan which hasbeen already suggested. With due deference to the opinion of the last writer, I considerthat Professor Cockerell has been the first to render the plan ofthis monument intelligible, and to afiford us the key for therestoration of the structure. When a discovery is made,
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . del in India—theother among the monuments of Algeria. I propose to foundmy restoration on the proportions of Greek architecture. Sofar am I from mshing to put forward some totally new idea, Ibegin by accepting the general features of a plan which hasbeen already suggested. With due deference to the opinion of the last writer, I considerthat Professor Cockerell has been the first to render the plan ofthis monument intelligible, and to afiford us the key for therestoration of the structure. When a discovery is made, it seems extraordinary that noone had thought of it before: so, when Mr. Cockerell restoredthe mausoleum with a dipteral arrangement at the sides, itseemed wonderful that the various writers who had precededhim should have conceived such preposterous ideas as thoseembodied in their designs. The invention all admired, and each, how heTo be the inventor missed; so easy it seemdOnce found, which yet, unfound, most would have thoughtImpossible. 164 MAUSOLEUM AT Professor Cockerell, therefore, was the first who gave us anyinsight into the structure of this building; and to his discoveryaU future illustrators must stand indebted. His plan has been since slightly modified by Mr. WatkissLloyd, by completing the dipteral arrangement, and this amendedplan I have unhesitatingly adopted as the basis of my design:— o o Q c o o o c 0 o o c o o o o 0 o o o 0 oo o O 0 o o 0 c o o 0 c o o On Mr. Lloyds communicating to me his idea, that if the columnswere disposed in a dipteral arrangement aU round the tomb, itwould be stiU more in character with Martials description Aere nee vaoio pendentia MausoleaLaudibus immodicis Cares hi astm ferant—,* and yet preserve the same number of columns, I felt convincedof the probability of the arrangement, as well as of its beauty; * Mabt. de Sped., i. 5, 6, IMAUSOLEUM AT HALICAKNASSUS. 165 and this probability* it will be my endeavour mo
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