t perpendicularly in the shafts of columns.Fluting the shafts of columns is a practicenever omitted in any great and finished Grecianwork ; it therefore seems probable, that it hadsome relation to the original type, perhaps thefurrowed trunk might have suggested the idea.It is, however, a beautiful… … methods of drawing the flutes of the Doric,Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. To draw the flutes of the Doric Column. OnA B, Fig. ], the diameter of the cokimn, des-cribe a semicircle, and divide the semicircleinto ten equal parts (as the doi-ic columnusually contains twenty flutes, which are…
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