. Architecture for general students. ze was frequently orna-mented with arabesques sculptured in bas-relief, while the cornice had its variousmouldings richly wrought in leaf and ^hflower designs. Under the cornice was aseries of brackets, bearing a leaf or scrollon the under side, and called modillions. The intercolumniations or spaces be-tween the columns, varied in the differ-ent orders, and also in different and a half diameters was the rule for ^•-^^^^q^-the Doric; in the Ionic this was increased to two,but it extended to three, and sometimes even to afraction beyond. Column
. Architecture for general students. ze was frequently orna-mented with arabesques sculptured in bas-relief, while the cornice had its variousmouldings richly wrought in leaf and ^hflower designs. Under the cornice was aseries of brackets, bearing a leaf or scrollon the under side, and called modillions. The intercolumniations or spaces be-tween the columns, varied in the differ-ent orders, and also in different and a half diameters was the rule for ^•-^^^^q^-the Doric; in the Ionic this was increased to two,but it extended to three, and sometimes even to afraction beyond. Columns not unfrequently rest-ed upon a pedestal instead of abase ; the divisions of the pedes- Modiiiion. tal were the plinth, the die, and the cornice, corre-sponding severally to the divisions of the column,—the plinth to the base ; the die to the shaft; andthe cornice to the capital. The Grecian edifices whose ruins still remain tous are principally temples, choragic monuments, andtombs. Palaces there are none, for palaces are not.
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