A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 37
. In this sense, theterm is often limited to a single shaft with itsappurtenances as above ; for the distinction be ORDER established five ordei-s, namely: the three abovenamed; the Tuscan, which to Vitruvius woiddhave seemed a plain form of Doric and nothingmore; and the Composite, which to the… … Order, Fk.. 1 Gkecivs Ilomc tiht hf ihe >.o-rviiFi> IhMPLF. of Xfptuxf. ai P.estim. tween one order and another is marked by thedetails of one such unit of a colonnade. Theorders known to Vitruvius (the only writer onarchitecture of classical time.s whose works havesurvived) are three :…
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