A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 607
rhead. This is sometimes en-larged into a decorative piece of architecture,especially for a well on the village green, or thelike, or when a memorial purpose is attachedto it. The well curbs of the Middle Ages havegenerally perished. There are, however, someelaborate wrought-iron canopies and… … Well Curb, Ratisbox Cathedral, Bavaria,15th Century. exist in some towns of Italy. Thus, one inPienza, attached to the Palazzo Piccolomini,has two columns upon which rests a trabeatedstructure treated on either side like a cl;i.ssicalentablature, and from the under surface orsoffit of this…
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