Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 44
mon. Theabacus is, on all occasions, the width only of the pillar, and invari-ably narrower than the capital, which is a valuable feature, andvery essential to the effect of stability. The Egyptian pillars varyin their altitudes from about four to nearly seven diameters, thelonger proportions being… … Ruins at Pliiloe. The various altitudes and horizontal masses of the great divi-sions of an Egyptian temple, as still seen at Philoe and elsewhere 40 EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT. breaking with their bold shadows the dazzling undulating mass oflight characterising the general landscape, are calculated in…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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