By Alexander Alberro
An anthology of writings and tasks by means of artists who constructed and prolonged the style of institutional critique.
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CARYATID NOW IN THE VILLA ALBANI AT ROME CARYATIDES FROM THE TREASURY OF THE ONIDIANS AT DELPHY CARYATIDES OF THE ERECHTHEUM AT ATHENS CARYATIDES (From the edition of Vitruvius by Fra Giocondo, Venice, 1511) 6. Likewise the Lacedaemonians under the leadership of Pausanias, son of Agesipolis, after conquering the Persian armies, infinite in number, with a small force at the battle of Plataea, celebrated a glorious triumph with the spoils and booty, and with the money obtained from the sale thereof built the Persian Porch, to be a monument to the renown and valour of the people and a trophy of victory for posterity.
The temples of Minerva, Mars, and Hercules, will be Doric, since the virile strength of these gods makes daintiness entirely inappropriate to their houses. In temples to Venus, Flora, Proserpine, Spring-Water, and the Nymphs, the Corinthian order will be found to have peculiar significance, because these are delicate divinities and so its rather slender outlines, its flowers, leaves, and ornamental volutes will lend propriety where it is due. The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.