Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 165
)erhaps be considered as a refinement upon this Order,even as used in the Parthenon. It is certainly quite as refined aninstance, while the ornamented and less severe character which it ishere given is commendable, considering the use of the columns on abuilding of circular plan (Fig. 78). The… … Fig. 78. Plan of the Tholos at Epidauros. building, is the form to which the Greeks themselves are most partialand which they evidently considered as the most interesting develop-ment of this purely geometrical ornament to which they had attained.The carving of the separate members, from the…
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