. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ust be noted, however, that nothingof this complete beauty is now to be seenabove ground. Plate I shows the famoustemple at Psestum on the west coast ofCampagna, southeast of Naples : the templecalled that of Poseidon, to which god(called by the Romans, Neptune) the an-cient town which stood on this site wasdedicated. This is the most nearly wellpreserved of the Doric ^ temples, with thesingle exception of the small building inAthens called the Theseion, or Theseum,see Plate III, and it is larger and more in-terest
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. ust be noted, however, that nothingof this complete beauty is now to be seenabove ground. Plate I shows the famoustemple at Psestum on the west coast ofCampagna, southeast of Naples : the templecalled that of Poseidon, to which god(called by the Romans, Neptune) the an-cient town which stood on this site wasdedicated. This is the most nearly wellpreserved of the Doric ^ temples, with thesingle exception of the small building inAthens called the Theseion, or Theseum,see Plate III, and it is larger and more in-teresting than that. Plate II gives theParthenon at Athens from the northwest Doric : Belonging to the Dorians, a Greek people. Theterm, Doric style, was first applied to the very few Romanbnildings and parts of buildings of which the basement storyof the Theatre of Marcellus and that of the Colossenra at Eome,are good instances. When the Grecian bnildings of Athens,Girgenti and Ptestuin were studied, the term was extended tothem; and these give us what we call Greciau-Dorio. [14]howtojudgearchit00stur. 21
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