A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 141
inish or ])rotection at the foot of a wall, or thelike, especially in interior finish, as a liaseboardforming |)art of the wooden trim of a room.(See Sldrting.) (CUits, cols. 221, 222.) Attic Base. In Greco-Roman arcliitectureand its imitations, a base consisting of an upperand a lower torus… … Basement, including Two Stokies, of the Building Palazzo Guassi at Venice, 1705 A.D. BASEMENT tlie upper torus will form one quarter (or onetwelfth the diameter of the column), the lowertorus, one half of the remainder (or one eighthof the diameter), and the scotia, with its fillets,an e(pial…
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