A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 475
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. When the monuments of Athens were broughtto the notice of EiUopean students, toward theclose of the eighteenth cent\u-y, it was seen… … DORIC ORDER lioen from time to time brought to the notice ofscholars, although differing among themselves,are of a character whichmarks them xmmistakably asthe favourite mode of decora-tion of buildings among theGreeks from the sixth centuryB.C. to the time, at least, ofthe Alexandrian conquests.In…
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