Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 26
der, as it will help to explain the characteristicsthat go to make up the frieze and cornice, if we remember that it prob-ably first crowned a wall and not a colonnade. Development of the Column. In these Greek temples, whollyof stone construction the spacing and size of the colunms, as well asthe… … 1 1 F^ ^^ •:| 1 ■• • • • • 1 MDIU • • 1 1 n ■ ■ • • Fig. 33. Plan of Temple ofTheseus, Athens. Fig. 31. Pl;i.u of Parthenon,Athens. of the lintel (Frontispiece), we know that the spacing of the column wasgoverned by the length of stone blocks which they were able to quarryand place across and upon…
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