Inside Out Library · Explore

An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders (1881)

Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 33

An illustration from An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, 1881, leaf 33 — Scotia. [The most complex of all mouldings is the Birds-beak, which The frieze is not invariably o The upper and ^^P n-D- i„„ 1 ii 1 lower hollows con- ^ Kickman employs the word ogee ^m as synonymous with cyma reversa. trasted. ^^^ 12 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. … exists almost exclusively, if not quite so, in the Greek Doricorder. It was never em-ployed, strange to say, by theRomans. It disappears, evenin the Greek buildings them-selves, after the classic periodof Athenian art. It may bedefined in its elementary form as a cyma surmounted by Birds-iDeak. a…

Architecture

Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders

More like this