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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 26

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hat they would haveretained the clumsy, and tothem unmeaning appendage ofa broken entablature, but would have placed the arch at once ^me^mmmmmmmmm^saasmm^-on the top of the column, as RonMUlwe know they did; hence arose the various national styleswhich preceded the introduction of the pointed… … 18 artfj. not moulded. As the Norman style advanced, the archesbecame much enriched with mouldings and ornaments, andrecessed, often doubly or trebly recessed, or what ProfessorWillis called divided into two or more orders. The formof the arch also by this time begins to vary very much; astilted…

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