Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . ?CYMA-YSOtA-mXi IDETAILSOF. ^Column, at >Jeck, PLATE XLV.(A reproduction at small size of Portfolio Plate XLV.) STUDY OF THE ORDERS 129 addition of the beautiful and unique Porch of the Caryatides. Thecombination in one group of these three temples was evidently consid-ered by their creators as a iour de force; while the way in which theportico to the Temple of Minerva Polias is arranged—so as to placeits center on the axis of the door to this temple and still tie it in to thewhole composition, even though it p
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . ?CYMA-YSOtA-mXi IDETAILSOF. ^Column, at >Jeck, PLATE XLV.(A reproduction at small size of Portfolio Plate XLV.) STUDY OF THE ORDERS 129 addition of the beautiful and unique Porch of the Caryatides. Thecombination in one group of these three temples was evidently consid-ered by their creators as a iour de force; while the way in which theportico to the Temple of Minerva Polias is arranged—so as to placeits center on the axis of the door to this temple and still tie it in to thewhole composition, even though it projects beyond the end of the bodyof the building—is a naive and most successfully natural solution ofthe problem. We have already seen that this building, the Erechtheum, fur-nishes two, or more properly three, uses of the column of this the four-columned North Porch of the Temple of jNIinerva PoUas(Fig. 68) and on the six-columned main entrance to the Temple of theErechtheum at the east, very similar forms of the capital are two different columns, the first a little over tw
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