The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 95
to have been designed as a represen-tation of curls of hair on the head of a matron, of whom thewhole column is taken as a semblance. 193.—The intercolumniation of this and the other orders—both Roman and Grecian, with the exception of the Doric—aredistinguished as follows. When the interval is one… … Fig. 111. ARCHITECTURE. 79 three diameters, arceostyle, or columns thin-set. In all the orders,when there are four columns in one row, the arrangement iscalled, tetrastyle ; when there are six in a rov/, hexastyle ; andwhen eight, octastyle. 194.—The Ionic order is appropriate for churches,…
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