The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . ojection—both in the parts of the building andin the spaces, the number of subordinate parts, themoldings, and the decorations, varied according tothe site, the size, the means at the disposal of thebuilder, and his own individual taste or the decorations often added may be men-tioned in particular, the drops—giittae—under thetriglyphs, and the small blocks—mntulcs—attachedto the under surface or soffit of the corona or chiefl^rojecting part of the cornice. These mutuleswere jDlaced over the triglyphs a
The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . ojection—both in the parts of the building andin the spaces, the number of subordinate parts, themoldings, and the decorations, varied according tothe site, the size, the means at the disposal of thebuilder, and his own individual taste or the decorations often added may be men-tioned in particular, the drops—giittae—under thetriglyphs, and the small blocks—mntulcs—attachedto the under surface or soffit of the corona or chiefl^rojecting part of the cornice. These mutuleswere jDlaced over the triglyphs and the metopes,and were wrought Mith three rows of six guttae ineach. SPECIAL LAWS. 201 The Parthenon. § y6j. The Doric order is perhapsbest exemplified in tlie famous Par-thenon of Athens, built mostflourishing period of Grecian art, the age of Pericles,a little over four hundred years before the Christianera, under the superintendence of the architectIctinus and the sculptor Phidias. It is built of thewhite Pentelican marble, and stands upon a platform. Doric Order. or stylohate reached by three steps, each one footand nine inches high and two feet and four inchesAvide. It is peripteral, that is, colonnaded all round,and octostyle, having eight columns on each end,there being besides fifteen columns on each side,making forty-six in all. The temple is 228 feetlong, 10L33 feet broad, and 59 feet high from thesurface of the stylobate to the top of the columns are fluted, and rest immediately onthe .stylobate without a base. The height of the 204 LAWS OF BrAUTY. shaft is a little more than five and-a half times thelower diameter, being feet, and the diameterbeing feet, and the capital is slightly less thanhalf a diameter. The distance between Ihe columns—the intcr-cohiinniation, as it is called—is a littlemore than one diameter and a fourth. The metopes in the frieze were filled with sculp-ture in relief by Phidias, of the most exqui
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