A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 103
e Perpendicular stylediapering was used only as a paintedornament, and as no attention hasbeen paid to the preservation of suchdecorations, but few specimens re-main. The name is derived from a MDm^tBtoivmiMaaevti*,,!,,kind of cloth then very commonly WeB,,anUlused, which was worked in square… … Diastyle, an arrangement of columns in Grecian andRoman architecture in which the inter-columniation orspace between them is equal to three, or according tosome, four diameters of the shaft. Diptychs, Bhuttera or folding-doors, especially over an altar.See Leaves, The Roman dip,tycha -were a pair…
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