Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory was filled yesterday afternoon by an audience which listened with the greatest interest to Dr. Wheeler's lecture upon the later history of the Parthenon...
...Athenian Acropolis. "The Later History of the Parthenon." Illustrated lecture Dr. Wheeler. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 4 p. m. Open to the public...
...Wheeler will deliver, this afternoon, in the lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, his fourth lecture on the Athenian Acropolis. His principal subject will be "The Later History of the Parthenon...
Before closing the lecture, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the coloring used in the decoration of the Parthenon, describing how the different parts were colored. In his next lecture he will continue in his discussion of this, and will trace the subsequent history of the Parthenon. This lecture will be one of very great interest...
After describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...