A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 301
lets instead of meeting at the sharp arrises,as in the channels named above. The biise »in-derwent fewer important changes during theperiod of whii-h we can Judge, for the ])racticeof fluting horizontally the large torus of the405 IONIC ORDERbase came in at a very early epwli, and thisremained the… … distinction. The bases of the little temple ofNike Apteros at Athens (which see under Tem-ple) seem to combine the two idejis, the combi-nation of flutes resting upon a part, at legist,of the Attic base; and a somewhat similarattempt was made in the famous Erechtheum.The tlutiugs and the…
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