Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    gildings are observable on the external cornice, and on the cornice over the frieze in the interior, the outlines of which are carved. Beautiful lacunaria, Un. Antiq. ch. 6. 7. Temple of Pallas on Scnium, hexast. peript. with propylaea of the same order, the Doric. Also of the age of Pericles. Ionian Antiq. ii, ch. 5. pi. 9—14. Un. Antiq. ch. 8. 8. Stoa at Thoricus (7 columns in front, 14 on the side. Comp. §. 80. Rem. ii, 3). The columns (11 mod. high) have received but the beginning of the flutings. Un. Antiq. ch. 9. II. CHIEF PELOPONNESIAN TEMPLES. 9. Temple of Zetts at Olympia, built with the spoUs of Pisa (which fell about the 60th 01.) by Libon the Elean, completed about the 86th 01. Of poros stone. Hexast. peript. hypaethral. The pronaos closed with grated doors (Siv^ott x«?i««') between columns, so likewise the opis- thodomos corresponding to the pronaos; the ceUa rather narrow with upper galleries {aroxl vTre^uoi). Size 230 X 95 Greek feet, height 68. On the ruins, especially Stanhope's Olympia, p. 9. Cockerell, Eibl. Italiana 1831. N. 191. p. 205. Expedition Scien. de la Moree Livr. 11. pi. 62 sqq. Comp. Volkel's Nachlass i. 10. 11. Temple of Hera at Abgos by Eupolemus after 01. 89, 2. The Olympieion at Megara before 87. No ruins of these temples. [Disco- very of the foundation. W. Mure Ann. d. Inst. x. p. 308 tav. H, The same author's Tour in Greece ii, 177.] 12. Temple of Apollo Epicuritts at Phiqalia, built by Icrtinus the Athenian (Eustath. on. the Od. p. 1825. R.), therefore perhaps before 01. 87, 2 (according to the supposition of Pausanias, after the plague, 88). Size 126 X 48 f. Without, a Doric pteroma; within, Ionic columns form niches (probably for Donaria) and an hypsethron. A Corinthian column stood at the end of the hypsethron behind the statue. On the ruins Combe, Brit. M. iv. pi. 25—28. Stackelberg, Apollotempel Tf. 1—5. Donaldson, Antiq. of Athens, Suppl. p. 1. pi. 1—10. 13. Temple of Athena Elea at Tegea, buUt by Soopas after the 96th 01. the largest and most beautiful in the Peloponnesus. The combina- tion of Ionic columns externally, and Doric and Corinthian above one another within, is important for the history of architecture. Paus. viii, 45. Slight remains. DodweU, Tour ii. p. 419. Klenze Aphorist. Bem. S. 647. 14. The very slender Doric columns (more than 13 mod. high) of the temple of Zeus at Nemea appear to belong to the end of this period. Ionian Antiq. ii. ch. 6. pi. 15-18. Descr, de Moree iii. pi. 72. [Clarke Trav. ii, 2. chap. 18. p. 714. 4to Ed.] III. IONIA [and CARIA]. 15 DiDYMiEON AT MiLETtJS, after its destruction rebuilt 01. 71, prin- cipally by Pajonius and Daphnis of Miletus, but never entirely com- pleted. Dipteral decast. hypasthral, 163 feet broad, in magnificent Ionic style, with engaged Corinthian columns in the pronaos. The columns