A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 469
of the capital is carved809 DORIC ORDER into an egg and dart moulding, and the smallcavetto which forms part of the abacus is alsosculptured with conventional leaf forms. Thereis, moreover, a large rosette in each metope.The Italian architects and writers of the classi-cal revival, in adopting this… … Doorway: S. M.vrlv, at Tosoanella (Latium), Italy; Early It.vllvx Romanesque. and plain. The Doric order, then, as given byVignola, is almost entirely a moilern comjiosition.The order w;is but Mttlc used among the Ro-mans in a form ridi enough to distinguisii itcertainly from the so-called Tuscan.…
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