A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 188
RCHITECTURE of producing a perspective illusion, as suggestedby Professor Goodyear; it seems more likelythat the Greeks found in this device a meansof avoiding the mechanical impression likely tobe produced by straight lines and surfaces, and GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE divinity and for the deposit of… … Grecian Architecture : Angle of an Ionic Building ; One Corner Capital and Two Common Ionic Capitals.The broad band in each capital would be decorated by anthemions in a rich building. of giving to their buildings a more plastic exter-nal form. (See Refinements in Design.) Grecian temples were…
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