. Architecture for general students. it was by a more perfectadjustment of parts, a greater delicacy of proportion,a more complete rhythm and harmony, rather than Grecian A rch itecttwe. 55 by the introduction of newand distinct features, that thisart advanced to its a passage in Pau-sanias we learn that boththe Ionic and Doric orderswere in use as early as 650B. c, yet the most brilliantperiod of Grecian art was thatwhich intervened between thePersian war and the Macedo-nian supremacy, from about470 to 338 B. c. All thearchitectural works of thistime may be referred to oneof t
. Architecture for general students. it was by a more perfectadjustment of parts, a greater delicacy of proportion,a more complete rhythm and harmony, rather than Grecian A rch itecttwe. 55 by the introduction of newand distinct features, that thisart advanced to its a passage in Pau-sanias we learn that boththe Ionic and Doric orderswere in use as early as 650B. c, yet the most brilliantperiod of Grecian art was thatwhich intervened between thePersian war and the Macedo-nian supremacy, from about470 to 338 B. c. All thearchitectural works of thistime may be referred to oneof the three orders into whichGrecian architecture is divid-ed — the Doric, the Ionic, theCorinthian ; and these ordersare said to have received theirnames from the regions wherethey originated. The divisionis founded upon the forms ofthe column and the entabla-ture resting upon it, so thatwhen a buildins: is said to beof a certain order, we under-stand at once the peculiarmodifications of these parts,for they are invariably
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