The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 63
6i), the column is moreslender, and it is crowned by a capitalwhich is like a cushion with volutes.Finally, the Corinthian order, whichwas chiefly used in the Roman period,as also during the Renaissance andin our own times, is characterised bya capital which reproduces a cluster ofacanthus leaves.… … CROUP OF THE FATES. From the eastern pediment of tVie Parthenon. (British Museum.) (Photo, by Mansell.) the beam, by the addition of a cubeor slab, and this expansion was the origin of the capital. The Corinthiancapital was adopted at a period whenGreek artists had forgotten the ex-igencies of…
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