Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 220
nce between the use of the column in this fashion,attached to a plain curtain wall, and its use placed against the face of apier between arches, as the column was employed in the arcades of theTabulariiun and later in the Theater of ]Marcellus and the Colosseum,suggests a great advance in the… … Fig. 100, A—Roman Pier. Engaged Column and Pier. 171 174 STUDY OF THE ORDERS But in any event, the column, as thus used by the Romans intheir architecture, can seldom be considered as an important struc-tural feature. It does not even act as a buttress to resist the thrustexerted upon the exterior…
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