he number of flutes is increased from twenty to twenty-four,and their junctions are formed by fillets, instead of sharp arrises. The channels being thus multi-plied, and set apart from each other, are consequently much narrower than those of the Doricorder, and are much deeper in proportion to… … 111 ...*a«Sfr THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE. 75 ROMAN DORIC. The Doric, as we have observed before, is the oldest and simplest of the threeorders used by the Greeks, but it was ranked by the writers of the Eenaissance asthe second of the five Roman orders. The shaft of the column has twenty…
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