>>> inside the basket: 1 doll and girl's little things
>>> the origins of Corinthian order
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“It is related that the original discovery of this form of
capital was as follows. A freeborn maiden of Corinth, just of
marriageable age, was attacked by an illness and passed away. After her
burial, her nurse, collecting a few little things which used to give the
girl pleasure while she was alive, put them in a basket, carried it to
the tomb, and laid it on top thereof, covering it with a roof-tile so
that the things might last longer in the open air. This basket happened
to be placed just above the root of an acanthus. The acanthus root,
pressed down meanwhile though it was by the weight, when springtime came
round put forth leaves and stalks in the middle, and the stalks,
growing up along the sides of the basket, and pressed out by the corners
of the tile through the compulsion of its weight, were forced to bend
into volutes at the outer edges. Just then Callimachus, whom the
Athenians called
katatêxitechnos for the refinement and of his
artistic work, passed by this tomb and observed the basket with the
tender young leaves growing round it. Delighted with the novel style and
form, he built some columns after that pattern for the Corinthians,
determined their symmetrical proportions, and established from that time
forth the rules to be followed in finished works of the Corinthian
order.”
