A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 189
e of this order is frequently very highlyenriched, the flat surfaces, as well as the mouldings, beingsculptured with a great variety of delicate ornaments.The architrave is generally formed into two or three facesor faciffi; the frieze in the best examples is flat, and issometimes united to the… … the Corinthian j it iB of the same proportion as the Co-rinthian, and retains thesame general character,with the exception of thecapital, in which the Ionicvolutes and echinus aresubstituted for the Co-rinthian caulieoli and thescrolls. It is one of thefive orders of Classic archi-tecture, when…
