. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ilO. 53.— PiuC C.\r:TAt Fio. 53a.— Dome \L FROM TU3 TUEStUX. Via. 53B.—Greek Doric Capital from Doric temple at Corinth is attributed, as has heen stated,to the seventh century This was a massive masonrystructure with extremely short, stumpy columns, andstrong mouldings, hut presenting the main features of tlieDoric st}le, as we know it, in its earliest and rudest form. bo CLASSIC ARCniTECTURE. Successive examples (Figs. 53 to 53b) show increasingslenderness of proportions ami refinement of treatment,and are a
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . ilO. 53.— PiuC C.\r:TAt Fio. 53a.— Dome \L FROM TU3 TUEStUX. Via. 53B.—Greek Doric Capital from Doric temple at Corinth is attributed, as has heen stated,to the seventh century This was a massive masonrystructure with extremely short, stumpy columns, andstrong mouldings, hut presenting the main features of tlieDoric st}le, as we know it, in its earliest and rudest form. bo CLASSIC ARCniTECTURE. Successive examples (Figs. 53 to 53b) show increasingslenderness of proportions ami refinement of treatment,and are accompanied by sculpture which approaches nearerand nearer to perfection; but in the later and best build-ings, as in the earliest and rudest, certain forms areretained for which it seems impossible to account, excepton the supposition that they are reproductions in stone ormarble of a timber construction. These occur in the en-tablature, while the column is of a type which it is hard tobelieve is not copied from originals in use in Egypt manycenturies earlier, and already described (chap. ii.). We will now proceed to ex
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