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History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)

Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 117

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rmed into delicate volutes;larger volutes meet the four corners of the abacus. The shaft of the Corinthian column originally hadthe same proportions as the Ionic, nine diameters inheight; the moderns have made it still more slender,sometimes more than ten diameters. Anciently it wasfrequently found… … 96 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. One of the most perfect specimens of the Corinthianorder (Plate VII.), is a beautiful little temple or monu-ment at Athens. Why, or wherefore this has been calledthe Lantern of Demosthenes, would be difficult to dis-cover. It is octagonal, with eight elegant columns. The…

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