An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 885
culties are not obviated by the practice of tlie Greeks, who made an angular volute oneach extremity of the principal facade, and then returned the face of the capital. Withall our resi)ect for Greek art, we think the expedient, though ingenious, a deformity;nlbeit, in the case of the type being a… … oraers, selected the profile of Vignola as the most elegant of the moderns ; and the readerwill here recollect that in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders, the module or semi-diameter of the column is divided into 18 parts. In the figure, A is a plan of the sofite offhe cornice, and B a…
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