Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 68
g-and-dart moulding, unitemarvellously with the curves of the volutes and withthe rounded forms of the base. Another essentialfeature of the Ionic order is that, instead of being ARCHITECTURE. 55 immutable and inflexible, as is its rival order theDoric, it is susceptible of an infinite variety.… … FlG. 14.—DETAIL OF AN IONIC CAPITAL. ated with palm-leaves ; upon another the scotise gaveway to a dodecagonal trunk, each face of which wasdecorated in a manner peculiar to itself. Occasion-ally, as at Ephesus, the shaft was ornamented withsculptures. The capital finally shows great variationsin…
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