. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ery delicate curvature, after the blocks outof which they had been cut had been set,and indeed after the superincumbent block,the abacus, had been lowered upon eachone of them. Another feature in this remarkable de-sign is to be traced in the ruins, and wasmuch more plainly discoverable at an ear-lier, though still recorded and well-known,date : namely, the original painted adorn-ment of the building, in strong primarycolors. In the temples built of soft andrough stone, like that in Plate I, there isknown to have b
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ery delicate curvature, after the blocks outof which they had been cut had been set,and indeed after the superincumbent block,the abacus, had been lowered upon eachone of them. Another feature in this remarkable de-sign is to be traced in the ruins, and wasmuch more plainly discoverable at an ear-lier, though still recorded and well-known,date : namely, the original painted adorn-ment of the building, in strong primarycolors. In the temples built of soft andrough stone, like that in Plate I, there isknown to have been a thin coat of fineplastering spread over the whole surface,and the final delicacy of curve and sharp-ness of edge must have been wrought inthat plaster even more accurately than inthe stone beneath. But in the Parthenon,built entirely of fine-grained and hardmarble, no such coating was necessary, andthe paint was applied directly to the crys-talline surface itself. This painting cov-ered very large parts of the exterior, nor isit probable that any single foot of the[24]. THESEUM (THESEION) ATHENS.
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