Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 62
a noble simplicity withmuch grandeur. The Doric was at first very thick and very low : itwas but four diameters of the base in height: afterwards it wasmade a little higher; such are the columns of the two temples atPsestum. Later it was given five diameters and a half—-this reformwas made about… … GRECIAN CORINTHIAN CAPITALS.TOWER OF THE WINDS. MONUMENT OF LTSICRATES. The Ionic order combines simplicity and gracefulness, and ismuch more slender than the Doric. Its chief characteristic featureis the volute or spiral scroll. In some instances, as in the Erectheumat Athens, there is a…
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