2-750-413 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ionic Hall in the Acropolis at Athens, Greece, (1928). '437-432 B.C...Reconstruction of the Ionic hall behind the Doric portico of the Propylaea...Built by the architect Mnesicles (437-432 B.C.) the Propylaea were however never completed owing to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431-410). The marble coffered ceiling of the hall was supported by two lows of Ionic columns'. After L. Fenger. Plate XIX, fig 55, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]