In the process of working with these components, it appears that Bernini flirted with the idea of transforming the octastyle front into a hexastyle front. |
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It was tripteral octastyle on the two narrow sides, and dipteral eikosastyle on the long sides, that is, it was surrounded by 104 Corinthian columns in total. |
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How often are we reminded when reading of the Parthenon that there were other octastyle temples that predate it? |
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