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...sixth and last lecture in Professor Doerpfeld's course was given last evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum. As on former occasions, the room was crowded to overflowing with an interested audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DORIC TEMPLE. | 10/21/1896 | See Source »

...introduction Professor Doerpfeld showed on the screen a number of the best preserved Doric temples-including the Parthenon and the so-called Theseum-edifices which exhibit the order in its perfection; and then raised the question as to the origin of the Doric temple. According to the traditional belief, the Doric temple in its finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DORIC TEMPLE. | 10/21/1896 | See Source »

...been led by the solidity of the earlier Doric forms to deny their derivation from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DORIC TEMPLE. | 10/21/1896 | See Source »

...conclusion, Professor Doerpfeld showed how a Greek play, under these conditions, would have been brought out, and selected the Suppliants of Aeschylus for detailed illustration. The lecture was profusely illustrated by many beautiful lantern slides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRE AT ATHENS. | 10/20/1896 | See Source »

This evening Professor Doerpfeld gives the last lecture in the series. His topic is "The Doric Temple,"- a subject upon which, both as architect and archaeologist, he speaks with great authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRE AT ATHENS. | 10/20/1896 | See Source »

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