Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 43
ANT^-CAPITAL AND WALL-BORDER. § Grecian Portal. The doorway wassimply jambs unitedby the lintel (Fig. 18).The Greek, becauseof his love of thebeautiful, recessed thejambs, cut rosettes in their front faces, placed a cornice,replete with beauty, above the lintel. The portal wassimple in form, yet… … wai,i,-borde;r and pilaste;r (erechtheum). entrance of the temple. The ornaments of the lintelare the same as those of the capital, being ovolos andacanthus-leaves. And that we might not fail to com-pare the glory of the doorway with that of the column,the sculptor carves a kind of volute upon the…
Church architecture
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