Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 221
ed 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 walls by the interior arches roofing the roomsor corridors. The Romans must first have used a continuous and purely… … Fig. 10. Pont du Gard, Nimes. grafted upon its surface, the columns being each placed against thecenter of a pier. The colonnade shown in Fig. 99, drawn accordingto the rule of Vignola, would be more pleasing if the plain surface inthe bay between the three-quarter-engaged columns—below the…
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