A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 474
ital is carved8(19 DORIC ORDER into an egg and dart moulding, and the smallcavetto which forms part of the abacus is also.sculptured with conventional leaf forms. Thereis, moreover, a large rosette in each metope.The Italian architects and writers of the classi-cal revival, in adopting this much… … Doorway S. iLvRiA, AT Tosr\N-ELLA (I.atium), Itai.y ; Early ItallujRomanesque. and plain. The Doric order, then, as given byYignola, is almo.st entirely a modern composition.The order was but little used among the Ro-mans in a form rich enough to distinguish itcertainly from the so-called Tuscan.…
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