The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 44
ss rational and expressive form for its particularoffice than is the echinus of the Doric cap, is a far more perfectsymbol of the feminine element in nature. There is an essentialidentity between the Ionic cap and the classic console beforereferred to—although superficially the two do not… … scroll forms sustaining an abacus whichthough relatively masculine is yet morecurved and feminine ■ than that of anyother style. In the caulicole of aCorinthian cap In and Yo are again con-trasted. In the unique and exquisitecapital from the Tower of the Winds atAthens, the two are well suggested…
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