Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 488
Plate 4.—Roman Corintihan Order. … THE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE. 415 5. The Tuscan^ a variety of the Doric, was founded bythe Romans for the basement of buildings, and is thus dis-tinguished for its massiveness and strength. Its column isseldom higher than from five-and-a-half to seven times itsdiameter at the bottom. Plate 6. In the…
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