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A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture (1825)

Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796, Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 · London, Priestley and Weale · leaf 294

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tules must be made parallel; for it wouldbe both disagreeable and unnatural, to see them broader,and consequently heavier in front, than where they springout of the mutule band. Palladios Doric entablature, is likewise very beautiful:I mean as it is executed in the Basilica of Vicenza, whereit… … differ widely from the profile which is here inserted. The Editors first 200 OF THE DORIC OHDEK. dentil entablature, there is a design of it, accurately copiedfrom that building; which may serve as one instance ofmany, to show how little the measures of his book are tobe relied upon. Of all the…

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