Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 245
SSANCE CHAP. form of Ionic column of which he speaks ^ as follows: I makehere a short digression to speak of the Ionic columns which Ihave employed in the above-mentioned palace of her Majestythe Queen Mother.^ . . . The said columns are sixty-four innumber on the side facing the garden, and each… … Fig. 120.—Tuileries, from Du Cerceau. suitable ornaments to hide the joints ; which is an invention thatI have never yet seen in any edifice either ancient or modern,and still less in our books of architecture. I remember to havemade nearly the same in the time of his late Majesty Henry II,in his…
Architecture, Renaissance
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