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History of mediæval art (1893)

Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 175

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appearing in the Ganesa grotto referred toabove, where the number of angles is only increased for a shortspace in the middle of the support {Fig. 78, b). A second phaseof development is marked by the adoption of the octangular planfor the entire height of the shaft, as, for instance, in the… … ARCHITECTURE. 141 in the middle of the shaft. There was no channelling to emphasizethe arrises; but an ornamentation, at times in horizontal bands, isfrequently applied to mask the junctures of the different prisms{Figs. 78, a and c). As was the case with the columnar orders of the Egyptians andof…

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