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...classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will be at the level...
...said that there was much confusion in the popular idea of orders. Many persons think that different styles are different orders, while in reality the orders are only various expressions of the same style. There are only three distinct orders,- the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian. All others are variations of these. The variations are endless in number and admit of as great changes as any one can desire. The restrictions are not in any sense bonds, but have really done more to bring about variety of design than to limit...
...greatest, and there are various other points which the orders have in common. The exact distinctions between the orders are necessarily technical, but in general the orders may be distinguished by the difference in the caps of the columns. The Doric is the simplest, then comes the Ionic increasing in strength and richness, and finally, most massive and rich of all, the Corinthian...
...southern side is the Porch of the Maidens, one of the best known specimens of Greek architecture. The skill displayed here in the use of human figures in the architicture is unsurpassed. The northern portico was most elaborate structure. The architecture of the whole temple is of the Ionic order, which in this portico is seen in its most adorned type...
...prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn a terrace looking towards the abode of the Delphic Oracle, the shrine of a Doric temple with the Furies lying about asleep, the temple of Pallas built in the Ionic style, and the summit of the Areopagus. The scenery is said to have been on the whole, very effective...