The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty (1872)
Day, Henry Noble, 1808-1890 · New Haven, Conn., C.C. Chatfield & co. · leaf 230
in different structures from four diameters to sixand a half The shaft contracts with a slightconoidal curve or swell, called entasis, diminishingits diameter from bottom to top about one-fifth.The capital of the column was about one-half of adiameter in height, and consisted of three parts:I, a… … i l\c entablature Aaric J iu heiL;lit frimia little more than one diameter of thecolumn, as in the temple at Iaestum, 202 LAWS OF BEAUTY. to over two diameters, as in the temple at Selinus.It consisted of three parts: i, The architrave, abeam with a plain surface, resting directly on theabacus of…
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