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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 275

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it. The greater numberof their principal buildings were erected in a mixture of thearch and trabeated system. The Roman Doric and Ionic orders were ill-proportionedin their various members, bad in profiling, and also veryheavy in appearance. The Theatre of IMarcellus is anexample of the former in… … Fig. 304.—Roman Corinthian, half Capital of Mars Ultor. projection of cornice. A good example of this order maybe seen in the portico of St. Pauls Church in CoventGarden, London, designed by Inigo Jones.

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