A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 38
chitecture; Tuscan Architecture.) — R. S.28 ORDER Colossal Order. One i)t :i liciglit ^I-itlyIwyuiid that of one story uf the buildingwithin; cspeciiilly one of nearly the wholeheii^-ht of the buililing. It has often beenstated that this device, unknown to antiquity, ORDER tiers of windows between… … Order: Grecian Doric; that of the P.4.rthenon; h.wing the Entablature much less high andTHE Echinus much less spke.\ding, in Proportion, than those at Paestum. orignated in the modern Dogana (customhouse) of the city of Kome, which was builtlate in the seventeenth century on the founda-tions of an…
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