Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Temples / Reproductions of a Series of Lithographs Made by Him in the Land of Temples, March-June 1913, Together with Impressions and Notes by the Artist.

by Joseph Pennell

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COLUMNS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUNO, GIRGENTI

AS the sun sinks into the silent sea, these battered, beaten columns take on a dignity which proves how impressive this temple was when their art was a living thing. Only from within comes a voice, in English or American, which proves that art is dead—Greek art.

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THE TEMPLES ON THE WALL, GIRGENTI

THERE they stand on the outer walls, the long line of them—and there are more than I have drawn; but how magnificently they stand—these everlasting monuments to great art.