A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 105
rosses given underCanopy. In the Perpendicular stylediapering was used only as a paintedornament, and as no attention hasbeen paid to the preservation of suchdecorations, but few specimens re-main. The name is derived from akind of cloth then very commonlyused, which was worked in square patterns,… … Monument of William de Valence,Westminster. Diastyle, an arrangement of columns in Grecian andRoman architecture in which the inter-columniation orspace between them is equal to three, or according tosome, four diameters of the shaft. Diptychs, shutters or folding-doors, especially over an…
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