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Plan of Erechtheion. View of the east side of the Temple.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Architectural features from the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Parthenon

Part of the south side of the Parthenon. On the metopes scenes from Centauromachy. Interestingly, the author adds to this side a pediment as well.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Part of the east side of the temple. 2. Longitudinal section of part of the pronaos.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon

The Parthenon: 1. Plan of the temple. 2. West side of the temple. On the pediment the battle of Athena with Poseidon. On the metopes the Centauromachy. In fact, the Centauromachy is on the south side of the temple and not in the west, as the author suggests.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Greece, Metopes, Mythology, Parthenon, Pediments, Pediments of the Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: 1. Elevation of the east side of the temple. On the metopes the Twelve Labours of Heracles. 2. Section plan of the metopes and the friezes of the temple. 3. The east (the battle of Theseus and the Pallantides) and west frieze (Centauromachy) of the temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Battle of Theseus and the Pallantides, Centauromachy, Frieze of the temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Greece, Greek mythology, Labours of Heracles, Labours of Theseus, Metopes, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: Bottom view of the peristyle and pronaos, together with details of the ceiling.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Doric order, Greece, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Plan of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion) in Athens. East view of the temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Doric order, Greece, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Plan of Doric temple. Elevation of the peristyle. View and section plan of the capital. Elevation of the front.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Greece

View of the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Sounion

View of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Plan of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Fortifications and fortresses, Greece, Mosque of the Parthenon, Mosques, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Roman monuments, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Theatres, Walls

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Fig. 1: Transverse section of the temple as it now remains. Fig. 2: Section from east to west. Fig. 3: Section and plan of a Doric capital found in a ruined church within the French lines. It has very much the character of the capital of the pseudodipteral and hexastyle temples at Paestum.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Fig. 1: Section of the capital, half the full size, Fig. 2: Section fo the moulding of the corona, half the full size. Fig, 3: Section of the internal moulding of the architrave, half the full size. Fig. 4 and 5: Elevation and section of an ornament supposed to have been in the frieze of the ambulatory, full size. Fig. 6: Section of the ornament in the true position.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu. Details of the Order. Fig. 1: Elevation of the capital of the column and a section of the entablature restored from existing fragments, with the exception of the frieze. Fig. 2: Plan of the capital. Fig. 3: Plan of the fluting of the upper diameter, full size. Fig. 4: Shews the construction of the tympanum. Fig. 5: Shews the thickness of the tympanum stones. Fig. 6: Section of the end on one of the terra cotta tiles with which the roof was covered, full size.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Temple of Kardaki, Corfu: Elevation of the front towards the sea.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Plan of the Temple of Kardaki, Corfu. A denotes two wells.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Plans and drawings, Temple of Kardaki (Corfu)

Doric entablature from the north side of the wall of the Acropolis of Athens: Elevation, section plans and bottom view.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens. Details of the Capital of the Opisthodomos: Fig. 1: Elevation of the capital to a scale of two inches to a foot. 2. Section of the same to half the full size. 3. The annulets to the full size.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens: Plan of the lacunaria.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae: The Lacunaria.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae. Corinthian order and other details: Fig. 1: Base of the Corinthian order. Fig. 2: Profile of the torus traced from the original. [...]

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae. Details of the Ionic order of the interior. Fig. 1: Plan of the one of the attached Ionic columns with the various projections of the mouldings of the base. Fig. 2: Elevation of the preceding figures. [...] Fig. 3: Elevation of the front of the lower frustum and base of the Ionic columns. Fig. 4: Section to the fourth of the original size of the torus of the base, by which is shewn the peculiar section of the bottom of the flute. Fig. 5: Plan of three of the flutes at large. Fig. 6: Capital and upper part of the shaft. Fig. 7: Plan of the flutes at large. Fig. 8: Plan of the top of the capital. Fig. 9: Detail of the apothesis, fillet and astragal. Fig. 10: Perpendicular section through the eye of the volutes.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae: Longitudinal section through the posticum and opisthodomus of the temple.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae. Details of the Doric capitals. Fig. 1: Capital of the Doric order of the peristyles to a larger scale. [...] Fig. 3: Annulets to the full size. Fig. 4: In this ouline are shewn the general principles which appear, on most occasions, to have directed the Greeks in the composition of their Doric capitals. Fig. 5: Capital of the pronaos and posticum. Fig. 6: Details of the annulets and necking of the less order to the full size. Fig. 7: Capital of the antae with the architrave of the order of the pronaos.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae: Fig. 1: Section through the frieze and cornice. Fig. 2, 3, 4: represent the section and elevations of the tiles and ante-fixae, which were of marble. [...] Fig. 5: Section of the raking cornice of the pediment. Fig. 6: The ornament of the sima more at large.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo at Bassae: Plans of the shaft, capital of the column, entablature. Section plan and bottom view of the entablature.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Elevation of the the front of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae (reconstruction).

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Plan of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

North east view of the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigalia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Eagles, Figaleia, Greece, Human types, Mount Ithome, Peloponnese, Snakes, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Views

Plans of the temples of Zeus and Heracles at Agrigento, Sicily. Map of the site.

Tags: Agrigento, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Italy, Maps, Plans and drawings, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple of Heracles (Agrigento), Temple of Zeus (Agrigento)

Plan of Doric columns and elevation of Doric colonnade together with entablature, possibly from the Temple of Apollo, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Delos)

Temple of Apollo, ancient Corinth: Fig. 1: Capital and architrave of the columns with the step. There were six drops under each triglyph, but all of them broke off, for which reason they could not be measured nor drawn. Fig. 2: Annulets, or listels under the ovolo, full size.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

Temple of Apollo, ancient Corinth: Fig. 1: Elevation of what is supposed to have been the flank of the temple. The modern wall between the columns is inserted in this elevation no measures of the column which formed a part of the pronaos have been found. Fig. 2: Plan of the temple.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens: A. The base of the external columns, and of that marked F, in Plate II proving it to have been an external column B. The base of the internal columns, of which the plinth is continued, and form a step entirely round the temple. C. The profile of the astragal at the top of the shafts of the columns drawn by the eye from below. D. Plan of a column, with its flutings. E. Profile of the external face of the external architrave. G. Part of the wall of the peribolus on the South side, shewing the angular buttress. H. Section of the same, shewing its inclination, with a buttress in profile.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens)

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens: Plan of the temple, of which only those parts are shaded that remain.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens)

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: Fig. 1. The capital and entablature of the columns of the portico, with the metope of the north east angle. Fig.2 The sossit of the corona, and of the mutules, with the distribution of their guttae.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: Longitudinal section of the eastern portico and pronaos.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

The Elevation of the Eastern Front: Transverse section of the eastern portico. Here the front columns are removed to shew the antae and columns of the pronaos with its frize, the distribution of the beams of the ceilings of the Lacunaria.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens: The elevation of the eastern Front.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Plan of the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

1. Temple of Janus at Smyrna. 2. Great Circus at Smyrna. 3. Gate of the Castle of Smyrna. 4. Bay of Smyrna. 5. Chimaera.

Tags: Ancient stadiums, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Gates, Gulf of Izmir, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Kadifekale / anc. Pagos, Maps, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Homer (Smyrna), Temple of Ianus (Smyrna), Turkey

1. View of the Palestra of Delos. 2. Portico at Delos. 3. Fragment from Delos. 4. The ancient theater of Delos. 5. View of Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Ancient theatre of Delos, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Gymnasiums, Inscriptions, Maps, Palaestras, Views

Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens: Fig. 1: Mouldings of the architrave internally. Fig. 2: Capital of the antae. Pinacotheca: Fig. 3: Capital of the pilaster.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

Erechtheion: Fig. 1: Capital of the antae, with the continued mouldings and ornaments of the front wall, and a section of the Lacunariae. Fig. 2: Elevation of the external side of the antae, shewing some difference in the ornaments. Fig. 3, 4, 5, 6: Different ornaments under the flowers. Fig. 7: Section of the ornament at a, fig. 3. Fig. 8: Ditto at b. Fig. 9: Plan of the ceiling of the portico.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erechtheion, Greece, Plans and drawings

The Parthenon: Fig. 1: Plan of the angle of the Temple, with the Lion's head. Fig. 2: Section of ditto. Fig.3: Capital of the antae. Fig. 4: Capital of the internal columns.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Temple of Rome and Augustus, Pula: Fig. 1: The capital of the pilasters or antae. Fig. 2: The section of the capital. Fig. 3: The plan of the capital reversed, ans soffit of the architrave. Fig. 4: The base of the pilaster.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Croatia, Istria, Plans and drawings, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula)

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