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Title/Description
Herakles, aided by Athena, receives from Atlas the Golden Apples of the Hesperides; metope relief from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Original Caption
Greek Sculpture
Metope from the Temple of Jupiter at Olympia
Date
ca. 470-456 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Apollo Belvedere
Original Caption
Antique Sculpture from the death of Alexander the Great to Constantine.
Head of the Apollo Belvedere
View Description
: detail, head
Date
original ca. 330 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Interior view of the great temple at Paestum.
(5th Cent.)
View Description
: interior
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Parthenon
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
View of the Parthenon (Finished 438 B.C. under Pericles, built by Ictinus and Callicrates.)
View Description
: exterior (restoration drawing)
Creator
Iktinos, Kallikrates
Date
447-438 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Ionic capital and base
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Ionic Style.
Ionic capital nd base.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
(Smaller) Temple of Themis
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Temple in antis. Temple of Themis, Rhamnus.
View Description
: elevation (reconstruction drawing)
Date
ca. early 5th century B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Athena Polias
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Ionic Style.
Ionic entablature with egg-and-tongue mouldings and dentils. Temple of Athene (Minerva) at Priene
View Description
: detail, Ionic entablature
Date
ca. 340-156 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Athena Nike
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Ionic Style.
Temple of Victory, Athens. Tetrastyle.
View Description
: elevation (reconstruction drawing)
Date
ca. 427-424 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Erechtheum
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Attic Buildings.
North-eastern view of the Erechtheum.
(Abt. 410 B.C.)
View Description
: view from northeast (reconstruction)
Creator
Mnesikles
Date
ca. 421-405 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Erechtheum
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Attic Buildings.
Caryatide porch of the Erechtheum.
View Description
: detail, “Portico of the Maidens” caryatid porch (reconstruction)
Creator
Mnesikles
Date
ca. 421-405 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Comparative plans of Greek temples
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Earliest Period.
Doric Style.
View Description
: [11] Temple in antis. [12] Amphiprostryle.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Doric order
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Earliest Period.
Doric Style.
Elevation of Doric column and entablature.
View Description
: column and entablature (diagram)
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Doric order
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Earliest Period.
Doric Style.
Parallel of Doric columns.
View Description
: comparison of Doric columns: a) Temple at Delos (Hellenistic) ; b) Parthenon (Classical); c) Temple of Apollo at Corinth (Archaic)
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Doric order
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Doric frieze and cornice.
View Description
: frieze and cornice
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Doric order
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Doric frieze and cornice.
Doric entablature and construction of roof.
View Description
: entablature (diagram)
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Plan of Temple of Poseidon (Neptune) at Paestum. (Peripteral.)
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Parthenon
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Plan of the Parthenon.
(Amphiprostyle peripteral.)
View Description
: plan
Creator
Iktinos, Kallikrates
Date
447-438 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Doric Style.
Section of Temple of Neptune at Paestum. (Hypaethral.)
View Description
: section
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Original Caption
Greek Architecture
Maussoleum at Halicarnassus. Restored.
(Abt. 350 B.C.)
View Description
: restored view from west
Date
ca. 353 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Athena (Minerva) [aka. Temple of Demeter/Ceres]
Original Caption
So-called Temple of Ceres, Paestum
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 510 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple C
Original Caption
Central Temple on the Acropolis, Selinus
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 540 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple G (Temple of Apollo)
Original Caption
Temple of Jupiter, Selinus.
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 540-470 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Zeus Olympios (Olympeium)
Original Caption
Atlantes in temple at Agrigentum.
View Description
: detail of telamon (Atlantid) figure
Date
ca. 470-460 B.C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Olympieion (Temple of Olympian Zeus)
Original Caption
Temple of Jupiter, Athens.
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 174 B.C.E. - 131 C.E.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Category
Ancient Greece

Title/Description
Athenian Acropolis
View Description
; site plan of the Periclean building program
Date
latter 5th century B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Original Caption
Greek Architecture
The Mausoleum : Halicarnassos
West front [Restd. by Newton 1862]
View Description
: west elevation
Date
ca. 353 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Original Caption
Greek Architecture
The Mausoleum : Halicarnassos
South front [Restd. by Newton 1862]
View Description
: south elevation
Date
ca. 353 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Great Theater
Original Caption
Greek Architecture
The Theatre, Epidauros
Plan
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 350 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Great Theater
Original Caption
Greek Architecture
The Theatre, Epidauros
The Theatre (as existing)
View Description
: site drawing
Date
ca. 350 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Athenian Acropolis; reconstruction drawing showing appearance of the Periclean building program as of the late 5th century B.C.E.
Original Caption
Restoration of the Acropolis of Athens.
View Description
: view from west
Date
latter 5th entury B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Parthenon
Original Caption
Origin of Doric Order.
Half elevation of Parthenon. Half section thro’ portico.
View Description
: [a] half elevation; [b] half section through portico
Creator
Iktinos, Kallikrates
Date
447-438 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Temple of Poseidon : Paestum
Longitudl. section
View Description
: longitudinal section
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Temple of Poseidon : Paestum
Cross section
View Description
: cross section
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Temple of Poseidon : Paestum
Elevation
View Description
: elevation
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)
Original Caption
Temple of Poseidon : Paestum
Plan
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
“Basilica” (Temple of Hera I)
Original Caption
The “Basilica” : Paestum
Elevation
View Description
: elevation
Date
ca. 550-530 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
“Basilica” (Temple of Hera I)
Original Caption
The “Basilica” : Paestum
Plan
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 550-530 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Zeus Olympios (Olympeium)
Original Caption
Temple of Zeus Olympius : Agrigentum
Pseudo-peripteral septostyle (Doric)
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 470-460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Olympieion (Temple of Olympian Zeus)
Original Caption
The Olympieion : Athens
Dipteral Octastyle (Corinthian)
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 174 B.C.E. - 131 C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Apollo (II)
Original Caption
Comparative plans of Greek Temples
Temple of Apollo Didymaeus : Miletus
Peripteral Decastyle (Ionic)
View Description
: plan
Date
begun ca. 330 B.C.E., with later additions
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Zeus Olympios (Olympeium)
Original Caption
Temple of Zeus Olympius : Agrigentum
Elevation
View Description
: elevation
Date
ca. 470-460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Zeus Olympios (Olympeium)
Original Caption
Temple of Zeus Olympius : Agrigentum
Section (restored)
View Description
: section (restored)
Date
ca. 470-460 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Hera
Original Caption
The Heraion : Olympia
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 590 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Hephaestus (“Theseion”)
Original Caption
The Theseion : Athens
Exterior from S.W.
View Description
: exterior, view from southwest
Date
ca. 449-444 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Hephaestus (“Theseion”)
Original Caption
The Theseion : Athens
E. Elevation
View Description
: east elevation
Date
ca. 449-444 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Hephaestus (“Theseion”)
Original Caption
The Theseion : Athens
Transverse section of E. Portico
View Description
: transverse section of east portico
Date
ca. 449-444 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Hephaestus (“Theseion”)
Original Caption
The Theseion : Athens
Plan
View Description
: plan
Date
ca. 449-444 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Aphaia
Original Caption
Temple of Aphaia : Aegina
West pediment (Now in Munich Museum)
View Description
: west pediment (diagram)
Date
ca. 500-490 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Aphaia
Original Caption
Temple of Aphaia : Aegina
East elevation
View Description
: east elevation
Date
ca. 500-480 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
Title/Description
Temple of Aphaia
Original Caption
Temple of Aphaia : Aegina
Transverse section
View Description
: transverse section
Date
ca. 500-480 B.C.E.
Source
Fletcher, Banister. A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. Sixth edition, rewritten and enlarged. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921.
Category
Ancient Greece
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