A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 11
In all the preceding orders the abacus is worked square,but in the modern Ionic,the Corinthian, and theComposite, the sides arehollowed, and the angles,with some few exceptionsin the Corinthian order, Corinthian,truncated. The mouldings used on the moaern Ionicvary, but an ogee and fillet like the… … In the architecture of the Middle Ages, the abacus stillremains an important feature, although its form and pro-portions are not regulated by the same arbitrary laws asin the Classical orders: in the earlier styles there is al-most invariably a clear line of separation to mark theabacus as a…
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