Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 108
in the Doric style, etc. ; while in the eighteenth century Sir WilliamChambers, transferring the same idea to modern times, says that Doric * may beemployed in the houses of generals, or other martial men, in mausoleums erectedto their memory, or in triumphal bridges and arches built to celebrate… … 70 OF ARCHITECTURE mouldings are very graceful, and the features harmoniousand of a high degree of beauty; and also that the propor-tion of the shafts of the columns is very well understood,as they are neither too thick nor too thin. The formof the columns, as is commonly said, resembles that…
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