Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 317
fornamentation, to the extreme degree manifested by the Romans, isevidence of a luxuriance and a lack of refinement on the part of thebuilders and the nation at large. Useless ornament in any event isemployed only for the purpose of rendering upon the beholder aneffect oi greater costliness; and it… … Fig. 140 STUDY OF THE ORDERS ^ 237 ENTASIS OF THE ROMAN COLUMN The Romans seem to have adopted one general method of dimin-ishing or tapering their cohnnns, evidently based on the Ionic andCorinthian shafts of the Greek Orders. In adapting to their owti pur-poses the Greek entasis, they made no…
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