Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 133
the cornice only ; otlierwise they are like those of circularpiers, without ihe clitFiculty of reconciling the base of thebell with its head. i> xx-yi. When two or more shafts are groupod iogether,their capitals are usu;illy treated as separate, luitil they comeinto actual contact. If there be… … Fig. XXVII. THE CAPITA L. 125 is the simplest possible type of the arrangement. In thericher Northern Gothic groups of eighteen or twenty shaftscluster together, and sometimes the smaller shafts crouchimder the capitals of the larger, and hide their heads in thecrannies, -with small nominal abaci…
Architecture · Art
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
