ITALY Roman Temples at Paestum - 1864 Fine Quality Print Engraving

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ITALY Roman Temples at Paestum - 1864 Fine Quality Print Engraving:
$37.50

The Temples at Paestum
Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001
One of the finest 19th Century Italian views,
drawn and engraved by the best artists of the time.
Print Specifics:

Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1864
Original artist - Engraver: Brockedon - Brandard
Publisher: Blackie and Son,Queen Street Glasgow, Edinburgh & London.
Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
Dimensions: 9 x 13 inches (23 x 33 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
Paper weight: 3-4 (1. Thick - 2. Card - 3. Heavy - 4. Medium heavy - 5. Slightly heavier - 6. Light)

Equivalent modern paper: 1=Watercolor paper (115#);2=Postcard (100#); 3=Avg. business card (80-90#); 4=Brochure cover (60-65#);5=Quality resume paper (30-40#); 6=Regular copy paper (20#).

Reverse side: Blank
Notes: 1. The photos show the overall view of print and enlarged image. 2. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.

Narrative:
The great antiquity of the Psestan temples isdetermined by the style of their architecture, which is characterized bysevere simplicity. The Romans seem never to have adopted the genuine Doricstyle, and since the Sybarites are said to have occupied the neighbouringplain at some distance from the temples, the inference is that these structureswere the work of the primitive inhabitants. The temples are three in number.The one nearest to the foreground (referring to our view) is thought bysome to have been a curia, or a basilica, and by others a market or exchange,since no vestiges of an altar have been discovered in it. The second buildingis named the temple of Neptune, and is the most majestic structure of thethree. The distant ruin, designated the temple of Ceres, is much smallerthan the other two. We shall not occupy space with an extended descriptionof these buildings, since the engraving places them before the reader ina manner so satisfactory as to render textual comment unnecessary. Aftertheir subjugation by the Romans, the Paestans still retained a fond attachmentto the institutions of Greece. Though forced to adopt a foreign dialect,and accommodate themselves to the manners of their conquerors, they wereaccustomed to assemble annually on one of the great festivals of Greece,to keep alive the memory of their origin, and to vent their lamentationsin the ancient tongue of their country. \"

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