All true. The outer propylaea remain a mystery.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 6:57 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Bernini's propylaea
> it is worth a good deal to my belief
> provided your conclusion applies only to the inner propylaea
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> for as you & the pix also indicate
> the outer propylaea
> which are the ones that presumably matter to itva
> arise from a much lower ground level
> & would thus appear to need steps
> both to communicate with the gallery floors
> & also to form the outer edges of the propylaea at ground level &
> thus conduct the border between the bases of the propylaea
> columns
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > For whatever it's worth, you can see from all of the following
> photos that there
> > are no steps in the propylaea:
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> > http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd0800/bernini-colonnade-3
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> > http://tinyurl.com/2qo8t
> > (where the slope downward toward the street is obvious)
> >
> > http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/stpeters/frntwcol.jpg
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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