A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 266
CAPITAL girder wliich carries ji roof, and the caiiital isagain a purely onianieut.d feature useil to dec-orate tliat important point of the columnarstructure where the vertical passes into the hori-zontal. It has been urged tiiat tiie Ionic capital … CAPITAL Roman sources. Tliroughout the Middle Agesthe ciipital was more or less a reminiscence ofthe Corinthian form. The capitals of Byzantinearchitecture are closely .stuilied from it, evenalthough their general curves may have beenconvex inst(^a(l of concave. TIk^ cajiitals of the ^ 1
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