A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 470
DORIC ORDER been from time to time brought to the notice ofscholars, although ditfering among themselves,are of a character whichmarks them unmistakalily asthe favourite mode of decora-tion of buildings among theGreeks from the sixth centuryB.C. to the time, at least, ofthe Alexandrian conquests.In… … Doorway: Cathedkai, of Magdeburg, Western Prussia; c. 1220. Doric as described above. While, however, withthe Romans the style was rare anil continuallypassed into the al-most naked crudityof the Tuscan, theDoric of the Gre-cian buildings wasfound to be theprevalent stylethroughout all theGreek…
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