The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 83
The example will admit of the abacus and zocco being made eithercircular or square—thus differing in respect to the former from theCorinthian and the Ionic, and perhaps also the Doric order. Withregard to massiveness, it is intended to occupy a place betvfeeu thelight Corinthian and Ionic and the… … As it has been held that the art is taught by Vitruvius and adornedby Palladio, we may trace to the reception of this doctrine all theenormities and bad taste exhibited in the productions of those whofollow the anilities of these great masters. Both of them indeed pro-fessed to follow the…
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