A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1882)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 190
of the Greek examples there is a collarino, or neck- ing, below the echinus, ornamented with leaves and flowers. The shaft varies from eight and a quarter to about nine and a half diameters in height; it is sometimes plain, and sometimes fluted with twenty-four flutes, which are separated from each… … Komau Ionic. ancient entablature has been considerably departed from, and the cornice is not unfrequently worked with modillions in addition to dentels. The Corinthian Order is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks. “The capital,' ” says Rickman, “ is the great…
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