The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 172
es of worship were divided according tothree principal systems or orders—namely, Doric,Ionic, and Corinthian, and each order consistedbriefly of a column, a pedestal (on which in Romantimes the column rested), and an entablature ox topmember. These were furthermore subdivided : the columninto base,… … DORIC. IONIC. CORINTHIAN. Plate XV.—The Greek Orders. i;o GREECE. the cross beams, and a cornice or line of projectingmouldings above the latter (see Plate XV u These members, variously proportioned and dec-orated, form (with the arch introduced later by the A ^ ^_ ,- r: 1 A * *^3 hmmri imm • m m…
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