Subjective Proportions: 18th-Century Interpretations of Paestum’s ‘Disproportion’
<p class="p1">When 18th-century travellers saw the Doric temples of Paestum in Southern Italy with their own eyes, they observed for the first time true examples of the proportions of archaic Greek architecture. Contrary to the Roman proportional systems, the Greek ones had been larg...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Architectural Histories |
| Online Access: | http://journal.eahn.org/articles/125 |