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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 37

An illustration from A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive, 1902, leaf 37 — architecture. In this sense, theterm is often limited to a single shaft with itsappurtenances as above; for the distinction bp- ORDER established five orders, namely: the three abovenamed ; tlie Tuscan, which to Vitruvius wouldhave seemed a plain form of Doric and nothingmore; and the Composite,… … Order, Fig. 1: Grecian Doric; that of the so-called Temple of Neptune at P.estua tvveen one order and another is marked by thedetails of one such unit of a colonnade. Theorders known to Vitruvius (the only writer onanOiitecture of classical times whose works havesurvived) are three: Doric, by which…

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