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ARCHITECTURE, PURE CREATION OF THE MIND
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of the Parthenon, built other Doric temples which seem to us cold and not over-interesting. Passion, generosity and magnanimity are so many virtues written into the geometry of
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THE PARTHENON
Austere profiles. Doric morality.
the handling of the contour,—volumes disposed in precise relationships. Phidias, Phidias the great sculptor, made the Parthenon.
There has been nothing like it anywhere or at any period.
