WP needs more photography to illustrate surviving classical buildings of antiquity
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
The tetrastyle pseudoperipteral "Temple to Fortuna Virilis in the Forum Boarium, known as 'Fortunu Virilis' is dedicated to Portunus the tutelar divinity of the port on the nearby Tiber." — Henri Stierlin
A Henri Stierlin photo in Greece: From Mycenae to the Parthenon, Henri Stierlin, TASCHEN, 2004, shows the building free from obstructions on all sides, but I have no date for that pic. Contemporary www pics show dense folige obstructing the ground on either side, visible in Ryan's photo.
From examining numerous photos:
Pics required
From the front:
From the rear:
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Apparently it is possible to get much closer to this structure than the vantage point of the current photo. I rewrote the descriptive text of this article based the plan drawing and axonometric reconstruction in the TASCHEN book The Roman Empire by Henri Stierlin.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
The surviving freize is decorated with widely letter-spaced Roman inscriptional capitals, proof positive for typographers and lettering artists that the Romans were seriously into letterspacing on their public buildings
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Hexastyle pseudoperipteral Roman temple on high podium reached by steps. A most classical form of Vitruvian design in a remarkable state of preservation. "Tuscan Corinthian" columns, band of very classical sculpted ornamentation runs around the frieze, very refined dentils, petrified drips everywhere.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
WP needs many more of these, preferably of much higher quality and larger/high resolution too.
So get out those art and history books, old encyclopedias and yearbooks, scan artwork in the public domain and upload it. Look for color guauche and illustrations—"artist's conception" style, especially reconstructions of Greek polychromy; Correct, Greek temples in antiquity were painted in lively colors, mostly the capitals, entablature and adorning sculpture, yet few of the articles on classical Greek architecture touch on this aspect.
Arbo 16:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I posted a comment on Talk:Sans-serif about the "optically" thing. I'd like to hear your reasoning if you've got a sec. :) SFT | Talk 03:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
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