A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 38
: Tuscan Architecture.)—R. S. ORDER Colossal Order. One of a liciglit {Jtreiitlylnyoiul that of oiu stury of the buildingwithin; esiwoially one of iiejirly tlie wholeheiglit of the building. It has often been.stated that this device, unknown to antiiiuity, ORDER tier.s of windows lutwei-n the… … Grecian Dork : that or thk Parthenon; havino the Entablature mvi h less hioh andTHE Echinus much less spreading, in Proportion, than those at Faestum. orignated in the modern Dogana (customhouse) of the city of Rome, which was builtlate in the seventeenth century on the founda-tions of an ancient…
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