A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 475
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… … Doorway: Cathebhal of Magdeeukg, ■WESTEK>f Prussia Doric as described above. While, however, withthe Romans the style was rare and continuallypassed into the al-most naked crudityof the Tuscan, theDoric of the Gre-cian buildings wasfound to be theprevalent stylethroughout all theGreek lands of…
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