A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 301
d. The shaft of anEgyptian column wasoften diminished in sizeat the bottom, like theunder side of a cup, andsetwithoutaba.se; then tapering to the neck. g„;,p.j. „^ doubleIn Mycen»an art the Fusifokm Shape,shaft was often smallestat bottom, increasing490 St?\ Carved with Leaf-age : Cloister… … MiDWALi, Shaft : Window in Chukch orGernrode, Germany. as veranda posts and the like, are of veryhappy effect. The shafts of Doric columns ofthe sixth century b.c. are about sis times ashigh as they are in greatest diameter; and thesehave an entasis showing a very visible curve.(For the shafts of…
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