Title of the Print :
ENCEINTE SACRE D'EPIDAURE
Print Specifics:
  • Type of print: Heliogravure - Original French antique print.
  • Year of printing: not indicated in the print - est. 1900 - 1905
  • Publisher: H. d' Espouy, Charles Schmid, Editeur, Paris
  • Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Very light signs of 'handling'.
  • Dimensions: 12 x 17 inches (30 x 43 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image(s).
  • Paper weight: 1-2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
  • Reverse side: Blank
  • Notes:  (1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed; (2) The print will be mailed rolled in a 4" (10 cm) diameter sturdy tube. (3) Print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. (4) The uneven color tone in the photos was caused by the camera.
Narrative:

Under the direction of Prof. d'Espouy, the graduates of the famous Paris school of art, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, measured, rendered and shaded  the views of the famous monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. These drawing were then reproduced by a 19th C. process called heliography.


Sanctuary and the Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros: The Temple: An outline of the existing rectangular foundations at the present site marks the site of the  Doric temple with a raised peristyle which was designed by the architect Theodotos in 4 C BC, who also assisted in the construction of the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The temple contained a statue in gold and ivory of Asklepios seated on a throne, a baton in his right hand and his left hand resting on the head of a serpent. The Rotunda (Thólos): The famous rotunda was built in the 4C BC by the architect of the theater, Polykleitos the Younger, as a mausoleum for the hero Asklepios. The building consisted of concentric circles of colonnades - the outer one of tufa in the Doric order and the inner of marble in the Corinthian order. At the center was a maze; its purpose was subject of many hypotheses. The rotunda was decorated in different color marbles, paintings of Love and Inebrity and finely sculpted motifs.


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