The origins of classical architecture : temples, orders and gifts to the gods in ancient Greece /
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| Author / Creator: | Wilson Jones, Mark, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] |
| Description: | xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Temples -- Greece. Architecture -- Orders. Symbolism in architecture -- Greece. Architecture and religion. Architecture and religion. Architecture -- Orders. Symbolism in architecture. Temples. Architektur. Tempel. Greece. Griechenland (Altertum) |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10077649 |
Table of Contents:
- Purpose and setting of the Greek temple
- Formative developments
- Questions of construction and the Doric genus
- Questions of influence and the Aeolic capital
- Questions of appearance and the Ionic genus
- Questions of meaning and the Corinthian capital
- Gifts to the gods
- Triglyphs and tripods
- Crucible
- Questions answered and unanswered.
