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 117
c is extremelysimple, even rude, in its outline. Dr. Huelsenhas however in a recent paper {Mitteilungend. k. deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, XXI,169 f.) shown that this column was originallyfinished with stucco, in which somewhat elaboratemouldings were worked. It was drawn byseveral of the… … Fig. 7.—Roman Doric cap, withstucco finish, at S. Nicola inCarcere, Rome. Vasaris remark about its richness in membering is quite justified. IONIC ORDER; CORINTHIAN ORDER 79 two tori, as described by Vitruvius in the third chapterof his third book. Its capital with its volutes or scrollsor spirals,…
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