. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. ace was some-what curved or bowed, the lines of the ground planslightly outward, those of the entablature slightlyupward, and so on. A favourite instance of this cur-vature usually cited is when one of the measurersplaced his hat upon one end of the upper step, andhis eve on a level at the other, whereupon the hatentirely disappeared from view, on account of theConvexity between. These and other peculiarities, by no means con- -V| r Xw < ►JOh i6o GREECE. fined entirely to the Parthenon, soon brought theDoric style great
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. ace was some-what curved or bowed, the lines of the ground planslightly outward, those of the entablature slightlyupward, and so on. A favourite instance of this cur-vature usually cited is when one of the measurersplaced his hat upon one end of the upper step, andhis eve on a level at the other, whereupon the hatentirely disappeared from view, on account of theConvexity between. These and other peculiarities, by no means con- -V| r Xw < ►JOh i6o GREECE. fined entirely to the Parthenon, soon brought theDoric style great popularity throughout Italy, Sicily,Peloponnesus, and the islands of the iEgean, andbeautiful specimens sprang up at Paestum, Agrigen-tum, Bassse, Delos, and other places. But none eversurpassed Athenes temple, which with Athens al-ways remained the point of departure, from whichemanated nearly all the good and the beautiful inGreek art. From the year 432 B. c. (the date of completion)until 1687 a. i). the building remained comparatively. FlG. 53.—(.roup from the pediment of the Parthenon in the British Museum. intact, notwithstanding that the Moslems built a smallmosque within it. But in the latter year a shellfrom the Venetian artillery ! Morosini ignited thepowder magazine which had been conveyed into thesan< tuary, and serious destruction resulted. lii the early part of the present century, underthe Turkish rule, all the best sculpture was torn fromtli<- pediments and other portions, and Lord Elgin THE IONIC ORDER. 161 gained permission to remove it to the British Mu-seum (Fig. 53). One shipload was lost in the Medi-terranean ; the others arrived safely in London. Yet, bombarded, mutilated, and despoiled, thisruin is still the most magnificent in the world, andno traveller to day can ascend the Acropolis at sunriseand gaze at its soft, pink, beautiful lines inlaid againstthe blue Ionian air, and not feel their calm majestyand power, as well as the truth which und
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