. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. ;RDER. The Doric takes chronological precedence of theOther two orders; for among the ruins now remain-ing is an example whose date can not be assignedlater than 650 n. c It occurs in the Doric Temple i ICorinth, a building very far from realizing in its de-sign the beauty and elegance of proportion to befound in the later developments of the style. In- TEMPLE AT CORINTH. 151 deed, its columns, though tapering, are only four di-ameters * in height (Fig. 50), causing a general thick-ening of the mem-bers this
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. ;RDER. The Doric takes chronological precedence of theOther two orders; for among the ruins now remain-ing is an example whose date can not be assignedlater than 650 n. c It occurs in the Doric Temple i ICorinth, a building very far from realizing in its de-sign the beauty and elegance of proportion to befound in the later developments of the style. In- TEMPLE AT CORINTH. 151 deed, its columns, though tapering, are only four di-ameters * in height (Fig. 50), causing a general thick-ening of the mem-bers this very mas-siveness, not to sayclumsiness, is a realadvantage from anarchaeological pointof view, by pointingout and emphasiz-ing its Egyptianorigin, and so recall-ing the rock-cuttomb at Beni-Has-san (chap, i, Fig. 4),its probable proto-type. Neither f 1 iezenor cornice sur-mounts the simplearchitrave of thisruin and link be-tween rudeness andrefinement, and an-other glance at Beni-Hassan makes thetheory by no meansuntenable that thetemple at Corinthcontained neither. Fig. 50.—From Par-thenon at Athens. From Templeof Corinth. * Diameter when used as a measurement always refers to the diam-eter of the column in its lowest or broadest part. 15? GREECE. frieze nor cornice. The next step of the Doric ordertoward perfection may be seen in the Temple of Zeus
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