Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 57
ards the close of the seventhcentury B.C., appeared simultaneously in all theDorian countries—at Corinth, Metapontum, Paestum,Segeste, Agrigentum, Syracuse. It is the nationalorder of the Dorian stock, which gave to it/its owncharacteristics of (severity, force, and power/ In its essential… … Fig. 8.—doric order.(Column with entablature.) cut with twenty verticalflutings without interven-ing spaces, and assumedto the eye the appearanceof two truncated conesplaced the one abovethe other at their largestsection. The columnshowed in this way aswelling or entasis, ^vhichgave it the aspect…
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