A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 273
iguiescrownedwith a niutulus and cornice (Gwilts translation), but only a very few instances are known•1.58 CARYATID to us in anti(iue work. Much the most impor-tant instance is tliat of tlie porch called Pau-drosium, forming jiart of tlie Ereclitheum atAthens. The caryatids here are free; that is… … Cakvixg: P.^nel from the Cluny Museum. say, they take the place of columns; others arebacked u]> hy pilaster-like piers, such as the onein tlie British Museum, which was found near theAppian Way in the last century, its original even apjjlied to a large, new business buildingof many stories. In…
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