A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 507
stom. A number ofsuch Ionic columns, with capitals having moreprojecting volutes than if they were in-tended to support architraves, originallystood on the Athenian Acropolis, werethrown down by the Persian invaders, usedas building material, and lately recovered.One of them bore a piece of… … Memorial Column, near S. Maria Novella,Flokence. Tlie work of Giov.iniii Pisano; erected 1308, in memory of atheolojjical movement. The capital shows embleuis of thofour evangelists. 866 MEMORIAL COLUMN the euclosuiL uf tho Ulyinijiiui Zeus, Athens.Of remaining columns there are but two groupsof…
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