A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 383
Column: Roman; from Tomb of Caius-Ce.stiusAT Rome. than its own diameter and which, therefore,stands about halfway between the face and theback of the wall, its axis lieing about the sameas the axis of the w.dl. In some mediaevalstyles, slender columns are seen carrying verythick walls which rest…
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