Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 155
ower of the Winds. The cu-rious specimen of the CorinthianOrder offered by the variation usedon the Tower of the Winds atAthens (Fig. 72), is well worthy ofstudy. The column, while of thethree examples just mentioned thelatest in date, is still the crudest inform, the other two being muchmore… … ^FOR--A.-CAPITAL. Fig. 73. Corinthian Capital from Tower CUtasis of that Order, and with the of the Winds. flutcs running directly doA\Ti into the platform on which it is set; but the shaft is itself more slender,being eight and one-quarter diameters in height, including the capital.Besides the…
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