. A short history of art . e Corinthian capitals, but our illustration will serveas a specimen of them all. The most common decoration isthe conventionalised leaf of the acanthus, a species of Corinthian entablature difi^ers from the Ionic only in itsornamental details. We shall now consider the diiFerent classes of Greekbuildings, referring students to the chart for a chronologicalarrangement of the existing remains. We shall direct atten-tion first to the temple. Temples Its earliest and simplest form in Greece was the templvm inantis, where columns were introduced to form a port
. A short history of art . e Corinthian capitals, but our illustration will serveas a specimen of them all. The most common decoration isthe conventionalised leaf of the acanthus, a species of Corinthian entablature difi^ers from the Ionic only in itsornamental details. We shall now consider the diiFerent classes of Greekbuildings, referring students to the chart for a chronologicalarrangement of the existing remains. We shall direct atten-tion first to the temple. Temples Its earliest and simplest form in Greece was the templvm inantis, where columns were introduced to form a portico be-tween the projecting walls of the cella. The prostyle was atemple in which the corner columns of the portico were de-tached from the cella walls. The peripteral temple wasentirely surrounded by a colonnade; the double-peripteralhad a double colonnade. In the pseudo or false-dipteral,space was left for a second row of columns, but the columnsthemselves were omitted. We must distinguish between the three stages of the. S 3 ^ 8 H oIII u O l-H H owPi H H O Xu o 3 a, 3 o j3CO
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