The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order (1918)
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to stone.The intermediate form,between the earliest wooden type and suchcapitals as those from Delos (Fig. l4y, may have been the bol-ster capital of Hittorff and Viollet-le-Duc. In the Delos cap-itals, the wide separation of the volutes and the general linear tendency points to a bolster-like… … 28 example from Delos, in which a single rectangular block has beenbut slightxy modified in form. This rectangularity of some ofthe early capitals, no doubt, accounts for the bolster-blocktheory of the French authorities. We have noted the wide separation of the volutes at Delos,On the otherhand,…
