Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 223
ch placed against thecenter of a pier. The colonnade shown in Fig. 99, drawn accouiingto the rule of Vignola, would be more pleasing if the plain surface inthe bay between the three-quarter-engaged columns—below the en-tablature and above the line of the necking—had been omitted, thusallowing the… … Theater of Marcellus, Rome.Showing Roman use of engaged and superimposed columns. STUDY OF THE ORDERS 175 the arch principle from the Etruscan builders, and their use of theGreek-developed Ordci- as a mere ornament applied on the face of anarch-sup] )orted Avail, the Romans further varied—in one…
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