View of unidentified building with arch and thick columns along one side, above the arch is a bas-relief of an angel, in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Detroit architect, Albert Kahn. The word, "Leipzig" is hand written on front of photograph.
View of decorative gate between column and building in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Detroit architect, Albert Kahn. The word, "Leipzig" is hand written on front of photograph.
View of the Altar of Zeus with relief panel and Ionic columns. "The altar proper was on an elevated platform and framed by an Ionic stoa-like colonnade with projecting wings on either side of a broad central staircase. All along the altar platform was a sculpted frieze almost 400 feet long, populated by about one hundred larger-than-life figures. The subject is the battle of Zeus and the gods against the giants. It is the most extensive representation Greek artists ever attempted of that epic conflict for control of the world,"--Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume 1, by Fred Kleiner.
Exterior view of Angell Hall with eight Doric columns at the entrance, on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The building, completed in 1924, was designed by Detroit architect, Albert Kahn and named in honor of James Angell, President of the University from 1871-1909. "In his design, the architect, Albert Kahn, of Detroit, followed a severely classical precedent in the entrance portico with its eight great Doric columns surmounting a wide esplanade of steps across the front,"--from "Angell Hall, Mason Hall, and Haven Hall" University of Michigan history website. Printed on back of photo: ...designed by Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc. Hedrich Blessing Studio 450 East Ohio Street Chicago NEG. No 8685-I HNGELL Hall 4 of Mich.
View of columns with Corinthian capitals along one side of the Arch of Constantine in Rome, Italy. "This huge triumphal arch (21 meters high), with three barrel-vaulted passageways, was erected to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. It is just west of the Colosseum and dwarfs the nearby Arch of Titus. It incorporates recycled sculpture from earlier monuments, in part as some suggest, because creativity and technical skill had fallen off by this time period, but perhaps also because of a desire to associate Constantine with the "good emperors" Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, whose monuments were cannibalized for sculpture. The faces of these emperors were recut to the features of Constantine,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.
Severus, Lucius Septimius--Emperor of Rome--146-211
diagrams
columns (architectural elements)
Description
Bugbee original drawing of columns on grid of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, Italy. Written next to drawing: "Next add four columns and an entablature a little like Greek "propylaeum" [gate] with an extra wide center bay."
Severus, Lucius Septimius--Emperor of Rome--146-211
reliefs (sculptures)
columns (architectural elements)
Description
Detail view of columns and reliefs on the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome, Italy. "The smaller arches also have keystones which are carved to represent Bacchus and Hercules - gods which Septimius Severus held in particular esteem. The lower arches also carry figures, this time river gods. Above each of the small arches is a frieze which depicts a triumphal procession where booty and prisoners are being shown off,"--Ancient History Encyclopedia (website).
Material/Medium
travertine
marble (rock)
Measurements
23 meters in height, 25 meters in width and 11.85 meters deep
View of columns at the Asclepion in Pergamon, Turkey. "A colonnaded and paved sacred way, the Via Tecta, linked the city to the sanctuary. The sacred way reached the center of the E side of the temenos at a forecourt and monumental propylon. Along the eastern side of the sanctuary the library is N of the propylon and the circular temple of Zeus Asklepios (diameter 23.85 m) and the two-story rotunda treatment center (diameter 26.5 m) are aligned S of it.
The two-story circular treatment center at the SE corner of the rectangular temenos is counterbalanced by the theater at the NW corner,"--Perseus Digital Library.