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Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study (1910)

Speltz, Alexander, O'Conor, David · New York : E. Weyhe · leaf 455

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architects of the FrenchRenaissance, Philibert de TOrme had published a similar standard work in 1567.In England Palladio was generally recognised as the chief authority, owing pro-bably to the influence of Lord Burlington, until Sir William Chambers in 1759brought out his work on Civil… … The five Orders after Vignola.*) *) This numbers given in the drawing are milHmetres on the supposition that the totalheight is a normal height of one metre, divided into 1000 milHmetres. To find the dimen-sions in centimetres which correspond to this number simply multiply such with the height.For…

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