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Architecture, classic and early Christian (1888)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Slater, John, 1847-1924 · London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter, Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. · leaf 122

An illustration from Architecture, classic and early Christian, 1888, leaf 122
ort, and yet to clothe the support Avith grace.The strong proportions of the shaft, tlie slight curveof its outline, the lines traced upon its surface by thechannels, and even the vigorous uncompromising plantingof it on the square step from which it springs, all contri-bute to made the column look… … FiG^ 60.—Cafitat. op a Oreek Doric Colfmn from JEgina, WITU CULUUIIED ilLCOKAXlu:). horizontal lines drawn round the echinus by the filletscut into it, all seem to convey the idea of spreading thesupporting energy of the column outwards; and the abacusappears naturally fitted, itself inert, to…

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