Identifier: medievalarchitec01port (find matches)
Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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es, except that a circular core was substituted for the rectangular one (111. 4, Fig. 6). The Greeks were an out-of-door people, who loved the fresh air and who did not care tobe confined within a building. Hence it was that their architecture was so es.sentially external.Even the temples were seldom entered;—they were intended to be \iewed only from the outside. 3 Beside the temples, theaters stoas and propylaea were given monumental treatment bythe Greeks. Buildings for utilitarian purposes were in the main irregular and unpretending.Since the theaters, propylsea, and stoas were open air buildings, practically without interior,only the temples remained to offer opportunities for internal adornment. * It is now known that the so-called hj-psethral temple was extremely rare in Greece. Per-haps the only instance in Greece proper that has come do^^^l to us, is the example of JupiterOlympus, at Athens. The best preserved example elsewhere is the Didymsean of Miletus (111. 4,Fig. 10). 6
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