. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. 2771. Fig. 984. is the design of a Venetian window by Colin Campbell, the compilerof the three first volumes of the Fitruviiis Biitannicus ; and 2772. Fig. 985. is very similar to the Venetian windows in the west facade of the HorseGuards, executed by Kent. It is perhaps as favourable an exam])le of this species ofwindow as can be produced. Sect. XXI. NICMES AND STATUES. 27*73. A niche is a recess constructed in the thickness of a wall for the recep
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. 2771. Fig. 984. is the design of a Venetian window by Colin Campbell, the compilerof the three first volumes of the Fitruviiis Biitannicus ; and 2772. Fig. 985. is very similar to the Venetian windows in the west facade of the HorseGuards, executed by Kent. It is perhaps as favourable an exam])le of this species ofwindow as can be produced. Sect. XXI. NICMES AND STATUES. 27*73. A niche is a recess constructed in the thickness of a wall for the reception of difTerentobjects, such as statues more especially, but occasionally also for that of busts, vases,and tripods. Vitruvius makes no mention of niches, and but for an inscrijjtion publishedby Visconti in the Monumenti Gabini we should not have known that they were by theancients called zotheca, or places for the reception of a figure. Our English word niche isevidently derived from the Italian nicchio, a shell. 2774. In the early Greek temple the niche is not found ; at a later period, as in themonument of Philopappus, we find a circul
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