Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Research and Scholarship 1977 Review of Der Bassai-Fries, by Charline Hofkes- Brukker and Alfred Mallwitz Brunilde S. Ridgway Bryn Mawr College,
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[email protected]. BOOKS CharlineHofkes-Brukker and AlfredMall- a Bassaiexpert who had written on boththe a nr-shapedinner colonnadewith four- witz, Der Bassai-Fries, Munich: Prestel- architectureand the sculpture. In i962 Mall- sided Ioniccapitals supporting the carved Verlag, 1975. 180 pp., z folding pls., 117 witz'sarticle on thetemple plan sparked the frieze.When spur walls were added (by an- illus.,plans, drawings. DM 85.00oo. idea of a joint publication,with Mallwitz other architect)for technicalas well as completinghis contribution by 1973.In 1970 aesthetic(?) reasons,the columnsbecame It is a paradox of archaeologicalstudies E. M. Stresow-Czak6took excellentphoto- semi-columnswith curtailedcapitals, and that one of the best-preservedmonuments of graphsof the friezewhich Hofkes-Brukker, withspreading bases for purely optical pur- antiquity, the temple of Apollo at Bassai who meanwhilehad published several arti- poses (projectY).