And who were these Old Masters of classic architecture—older in point of service to their art by thousands of years than Giotto and Raphael and Michael Angelo and Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, and many others who might be mentioned, and who in campanile and cathedral, in public building and private palace, in monument and mausoleum, have proved themselves justly entitled to the laurels with which they have been crowned, but who nevertheless are but disciples of Hellenic and Roman masters? Where do we find the biographies of the original Old Masters of architecture recorded? Where can we turn to read of their lives, of their deeds and achievements, of their aspirations and ambitions, of their shortcomings and their foibles? Where are written down those anecdotes and incidents of personal interest, so entertaining in association with their works or their art? What, in fact, were their names? There is comparatively little recorded of the lives of the Greek and Roman architects with which to answer these questions; strange as it may appear, even their names are unfamiliar, and in many important instances are forgotten altogether. Among that large galaxy of brilliant men which Greece in her prime produced, who figured prominently in almost every walk of life, who were great in war and in peace, in philosophy and poetry, in satire and history, in oratory and valor, and as great, if not greater than in all, in statuary and sculpture—a galaxy clinging to the memory in all ages of human progress, because never excelled, the name of a Grecian architect is a strange sound, and does not ring in tune, if it is ever heard at all, with the names enrolled upon the list of Greek immortals.