A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 390
its original form it is a classicalRoman adaptation of the Corinthian order ; oneof very many modifications which that orderreceived to make it still richer and more elabo-rate, especially in the ornamentation of the capi-tals. As described by the sixteenth cent\uywriters, the capital consists of… … CoMPosiTK ; Earliest Use ofIT I.N Arch of Titus. COMPOSITION Greco-Ronuiii Anhitecture; Neoclassic Archi-tecture ; Order.) — K. S. COMPOSITIONAL). A. In fine art, theact of arranging jiarts in a design ; the termbeing equally applicable to colour taken byitself, or to line taken by itself, or to…
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