A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
History
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
NORTHERN BRAHMAN: Temples, Parasumareswara (500 A.D.), Mukteswara,
and Great Temple (600-650), all at Bhuwaneswar, among many others;
of Papanatha at Purudkul; grotto temples at Dhumnar, Ellora, and
Poonah; temples at Chandravati, Udaipur, and Amritsur (the last
modern); tombs of Singram Sing and others at Oudeypore; of Rajah
Baktawar at Ulwar, and others at Goverdhun; ghâts or landings at
Benares and elsewhere.
CHALUKYAN: Temples at Buchropully and Hamoncondah, 1163; ruins at
Kalyani; grottoes of Hazar Khutri.
DRAVIDIAN: Rock-cut temples (raths) at Mahavellipore; Tiger Cave
at Saluvan Kuppan; temples at Pittadkul (Purudkul), Tiruvalur,
Combaconum, Vellore, Peroor, Vijayanagar; pavilions at Tanjore and
Vijayanagar.
There are also many temples in the Kashmir Valley difficult of
assignment to any of the above styles and religions.
APPENDIX.
A. +PRIMITIVE GREEK ARCHITECTURE.+--The researches of Schliemann
commented by Schuchardt, of Dörpfeld, Stamakis, Tsoundas, Perrot, and
others, in Troy, Mycenæ, and Tiryns, and the more recent discoveries of
Evans at Gnossus, in Crete, have greatly extended our knowledge of the
prehistoric art of Greece and the Mediterranean basin, and established
many points of contact on the one hand with ancient Egyptian and
Phœnician art, and on the other, with the art of historic Greece. They
have proved the existence of an active and flourishing commerce between
Egypt and the Mediterranean shores and Aegean islands more than 2000
B.C., and of a flourishing material civilization in those islands and on
the mainland of Greece, borrowing much, but not everything, from Egypt.
While the origin of the Doric order in the structural methods of the
pre-Homeric architecture of Tiryns and Mycenæ, as set forth by Dörpfeld
and by Perrot and Chipiez, can hardly be regarded as proved in all
details, since much of the argument advanced for this derivation rests
on more or less conjectural restorations of the existing remains, it
seems to be fairly well established that the Doric order, and historic
Greek architecture in general, trace their genesis in large measure back
in direct line to this prehistoric art. The remarkable feature of this
early architecture is the apparently complete absence of temples.
Fortifications, houses, palaces, and tombs make up the ruins thus far
discovered, and seem to indicate clearly the derivation of the
temple-type of later Greek art from the primitive house, consisting of a
hall or _megaron_ with four columns about the central hearth (whence no
doubt, the atrium and peristyle of Roman houses, through their Greek
intermediary prototypes) and a porch or _aithousa_, with or without
columns _in antis_, opening directly into the _megaron_, or indirectly
through an ante-room called the _prodomos_. Here we have the prototypes
of the Greek temple _in antis_, with its _naos_ having interior columns,
whether roofed over or hypæthral (see pp. 54, 55). It is probable also
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