A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 33
-chitecture ; Tuscan Architecture.) — R. S.28 ORDER Colossal Order. One of a height greatlybeyuiiil that ul uue story of the buildingwitliiii; especially one of nearly the wholeheiglit of the builtling. It has often beenstated that this device, unknown to antiquity, ORDER tiers of windows between… … Order: Grecian Doric; that of thk Parthenon; having the Entablature much less high andTHE Echinus much less spreading, in Proportion, than those at Paestum. orignated in the modern Dogana (customhouse) of the city of Rome, which was builtlate in the seventeenth century on the founda-tions of an…
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