Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 140
ly Fig. 25. defined on a dark background. In time this sort of carvingbecame a continuous fretwork, undercut andrelieved from the ground except for someattachments here and there. At Bethlehemthe Corinthian capitals of the interior arevery much simplified from their classicalprototypes; they are… … 138 ARCHITECTURE of the East many characteristics are foundwhich later became general in Byzantine andRomanesque architecture. Arches sprangdirectly from columns without the interventionof an entablature. Or the entablature wasbent over an arch and thus formed the germ ofall deeply moulded arches.…
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