. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. FlG. 54.—Temple of Nike Apteros or Wingless Victory at Athens. A cella and two porches of four columns each arethe principal component parts, forming a beautifulspecimen of the Ionic order, though time has robbed NIKE APT EROS CONTINUED. 165 it of its cornice. But a band of bas-reliefs upon thefrieze (a model of the sculptors art) * makes one for-get the deficiency ; and the tall slender grace of the. Fig. 55.—The Erectheion at Athens. columns with their nine diameters of height is quiteas attractive in its own way as the
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. FlG. 54.—Temple of Nike Apteros or Wingless Victory at Athens. A cella and two porches of four columns each arethe principal component parts, forming a beautifulspecimen of the Ionic order, though time has robbed NIKE APT EROS CONTINUED. 165 it of its cornice. But a band of bas-reliefs upon thefrieze (a model of the sculptors art) * makes one for-get the deficiency ; and the tall slender grace of the. Fig. 55.—The Erectheion at Athens. columns with their nine diameters of height is quiteas attractive in its own way as the splendid strengthand inertia of the Doric supports of six. Here also, as in all Athenian work, may be seenthe admirable manner in which the Greeks composedwith sunlight and all the enchantment contained inthe play of light and shade. Every moulding pencilsits own black line of contrast with sharp distinctness, * This band of bas-reliefs has now been removed to the BritishMuseum. 166 GREECE. and the luminous lines of light along the shafts standout boldly against the dark shadow painted by theportico. All this and more may be likewise seen to advan-tage in the Erectheion or Temple of Erectheus( and Plate XIX), the masterpiece of the Ionicstyle. Owing to the triple arrangement of this temple(Fig. 56), and a rather obscure and discursive sentencein Pausanias, it was believed for a long time by Mr.
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