Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 65
Callimachus and the Acanthus. the graceful leaves of an acanthus. The lowest memberof the capital is a kind of calyx {calathus\ or cup, from 62 THE CORINrillAN ORDER. … which spring generally two rowsof acanthus leaves, surmountedat each corner by a small volute;the spaces between the volutesbeing sculptured with masks,flowers, or arabesques, or by an-other pair of volutes intertwiningwith each other. These ornamentswere sometimes cast in bronze.The order was…
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