The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-03-21

chitectare is, of course, colossal. exceeding.
it is believed. in proportions, the celebrated
Temple of Jupiter Olympus a. Athens,
the temple at Branchide, and ali extant
examples of CIR K architecture.
he great weight of the marbles disc0v-
cred rendered it necessary for Mr. " God 10
apply for naval aid, which was supplied by
the British Government with that alacrity
which has distinguished the admiralty in
the history of our recent archaeological ex-
petitions, and which can alone insure the
complete success of such ariuous enter
prises. Her Majesty's ship Caledonia,
grand old iron-clad three decker was at
once sent to Mr.. Woods assistance, and
has been engaged since the beginning of
this month at Ephesus and Smyrna in
hauling, packing, and shipping the marbles
of tie temple selected by Mr.. Wood for the
British Museum. | have been favored
with sight of these huge masses before
they were packed. The largest weighing
upward of eleven tons, is part of a drum
of one of the c9LatR c0iumHe mentioned
by Pliny-i. e., columns with figures
sculptured on them, of which the temple
had thirty-six. OF this bold striking in
novation in Greek architecture there exists,
it is believed, no other example except at
Ephesus. The relief on this drum appears
to represent an assemblage of deities. On
stone from A plaster corresponding in
dimensions TO the sculptured drum, is a
relief representing Hercules struggling
with draped female, and on another
| fragment of drum are the lower
halves of some seated and standing
! female figures. This sculpture is very bold
and effective as decoration, but wants the
ineffable charm and freshness of the freze
of the Parthenon, while in mastery vigor
of execution, and dramatic force it falls far
! short of the frieze of the MauSoeum. 1t
is careless and inexact in execution, and
has the characteristics which we might ex-
pect to find in the Greek sculpture of the
Macedonian period, when work was exccu-
ted rapidly to crafty the vanity of kings,
and when an Oriental love for mere mass
rather than beauty of design had begun to af-
feet both sculpture and architecture AL
lowing for this first disappointment, | own
that gazed with a peculiar interest on
these relics of those famous columns on
which St. Paul must have cazed when he
preached against them, but which local
funaticism, aided bv local vested interests,
4. preserved IN all their splcndor for three
centuries after his coming.
The architecture of the Temple of Diana
is Ionic. Mr.. Wood has verv properly Sc
iectel such fragments as Will show what
/ the base, the capital and the order generally
We're Ike. Once housed in the British Nh
scum they will furnish materials out OF
which, not, perhaps a complete restoration
of the temple, but a new chapter il
the history Of Greek architecture can be
constructed, just as out of the fossil bones
of the megatherium an Owen reconstruct.
lost types Of the animal Kingdom
The stones were very heavy, the mud OF
the Ephesus tenacious, and the weather
variable; but the CalcdOnIa's blue iacket.
have done their work with an alacritv and
good humor characteristic of blue Jacket,
in these expeditions, and by the end Of the
week the ship will leave this port with hen
precious cargo, for Malta