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Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)

American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 166

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d. Belonging to this lateperiod, it may perhaps 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… … Fig. 78. Plan of the Tholos at Epidauros. building, is the form U) which the Greeks themselves are most partialand which tliey evidently con.sidered as the mo.st interesting develoj)-ment of this purely geometrical ornament to which they had attained.The carving of the separate members, from the…

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