The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order (1918)
Newcomb, Rexford, 1886-1968 · leaf 84
f course, is not conclu-sive and the matter must be left thus until further finds ofarchaic types are reported. All the evidence so far presented,however, indicates that the ionic voluted capital is not the pro-duct of Assyrian decoration but the development of a Grecian , or 1- Egyptian, in the… … 32 at least an Aegean, structure. Its birthplace was in the westof that day not in the east (Tigris-Euphrates Basin;. * IV. THE VOLUTE AS A FEATURE OF THE CLASSIC ORDERS. 1. The Ionic Order, Developed.— Table I will give thereader a chronological arrangement of the various historicspecimens of the…
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