Lectures on architecture, comprising the history of the art from the earliest times to the present day: delivered at the Surrey and Russell Institutions, London, and the Philosophical Institution at Birmingham (1823)
surdity, leavt^have even been added in tlie \vArt betueen thenecking and the under mouldinj; of the capital,which Falladio, oddly enough, calls the iViezeof the capital. To its beautil\dl\ proportionedshaft they ha>e added several diameters inheight. FV-jr its conical outline they ha\e… … In the above cuts tbr; (jrcjir.ui Doric Ih con-trasted with the Roman. Two other ^irecianexamples are annexed. I must say a few words more before cAfmmu 208 ELMESS LECTURES this section on the characteristic echinus of thetrue Doric. Its contour is generally, as 1 havebefore observed, elliptical or…
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