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Creation Year
January 1958
Image ID
W.019
Alternate Identifier
B22.019
Subcollection
W: Attica, Crete, Santorini
Abstract
The majestic Corinthian columns of the Temple of Zeus Olympius.
Description
Trachtenberg writes that this temple is one of the earliest instances of "the Corinthian" appearing "as the principal exterior order of a normal peripteral temple" (103). Of the 104 columns of the temple, with 8 and 20 on the short and long sides (octastyle dipteral), only sixteen remain today. Fifteen of these remain standing, while one of them collapsed because of a feirce wind in 1852. They are approximately 1.7 m in diameter, and have 20 flutes. -MA
References
Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Isabelle Hyman. "Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-modernism: The Western Tradition." New York: Prentice-Hall, H.N. Abrams, 1986.
Image Notes
Photograph created August 4th, 1958. Processing date unknown. Formerly catalogued as B22.019. Notes written on the slide or index: Temple of Zeus, Athens.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Athens, Greece