A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 378
Column: Roman; from Tomb of Caius-CestiusAT Rome. than its owti diameter and which, therefore,stands about halfway between the face and theback of the wall, its axis being about the sameas the axis of the wall. In some mediaevalstyles, slender columns are seen canying verythick walls which rest…
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