How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 82
acy from the Etruscan prede-cessors of the Romans. It is, however, little more than 58 THE FIRST GREAT TRANSITION a coarsened reproduction of the Doric. The Tuscancolumn has a base consisting of plinth (the square blockwhich balances the abacus at the top), half-round mold-ing, and fillet.… … FIG. 22—TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF TITUS Ionic and Corinthian. In brief, it consists of the en-largement of the four Corinthian volutes to about theproportions they reach in the Ionic. The three Greek orders were all, of course, trans-planted to Roman soil, but in each case they were sotransformed and…
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