The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . profile, if we mayjudge from the similarity which exists between thispart and that of his Ionic order. Of the Ionic order, Greece itself offers great varietyof expression, as has been just before remarked, andwhich is proved by comparing the columns, (thecapitals of which form so conspicuous a feature inthis order,) of the temple on the Ilissus, with those ofMinerva Polias and Erectheus, and these latter withthose of the temple of Apollo Didymaeus, a
The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . profile, if we mayjudge from the similarity which exists between thispart and that of his Ionic order. Of the Ionic order, Greece itself offers great varietyof expression, as has been just before remarked, andwhich is proved by comparing the columns, (thecapitals of which form so conspicuous a feature inthis order,) of the temple on the Ilissus, with those ofMinerva Polias and Erectheus, and these latter withthose of the temple of Apollo Didymaeus, at the example last-mentioned and that of For-tuna Virilis, at Rome, there exists an almost incom-parably less degree of difference, than between thatof Apollo, just cited, and of Minerva Polias, both ofwhich are of Greece. In fine, architecture demands, in the numerous com-positions that are intended to exhibit a conformity tomodern customs and wants, that the different shadescomprehended in the character of each order beapplied according as the nature of each edifice may ]D):etaixs dy tjte iqt^it: dirdish. Ar olOif Volute. I mdm JtMUUm Tsr SiHfii^ftm s ArMZtdurxl DircA-^ Ti; JAn, Scnm-trtC: ^e,I-yy Z.^ i©??c o]K3j):e,]r
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