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Handbook for architects and builders (1898)

Illinois Society of Architects · Chicago · leaf 718

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the Order, as hererepresented, will be found to exist inmany recognised examples. Occasion-ally the mutules are dispensed with, andtheir bed mould is cut to form a dentilcourse, as in the Theatre of Marcellus.The cyma crowning the cornice is oftenreplaced by a cavetto, while the Doricbase (shown… … I 1 :o f 2 r^ ! a t - ;v< iJ ] 1 - T LLU IONIC Plate IV. The Ionic Order shows smaller variationsfrom the pure Classic examples than anyother, and its proportions are fairly simple. Two styles of cornices are. however, used,the modiilion and the dentil cornice, andalthough the method adopted by…

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