Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 167
nce sometimes led to offenses against good taste, andthe execution is occasionally coarse, but such offensesare rare, and beauty, refinement, delicacy and charmfrequently characterize even the grandest works. 139 A HISTORY OF ORXAMENT The Orders. The most conspicuous adornment of Roman buildingswas… … Fig. 168. Roman Ioxic Capitals. three, the Tuscan and Doric being mere variants ofone type and the Composite and Corinthian of another.Upon their so-called Doric column, which was reallyan enriched and refined form of the Etruscan (Tuscan)column, the Romans placed an entablature derived fromthat of…
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