Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . c .:!?. Pig. Ti. Tower of the Winds, Athens. 136 STUDY OF THE ORDERS form. The columns of these three examples are showm at their fullheight in Plate XLVHI, where they are arranged so as to be easilycompared for the differences in the proportions of the shafts and theirentasis, as well as for the purpose of contrasting the different Greektypes of the capital itself. In all three, the shaft of the column isfluted; and in only one—that of the Temple of the Winds—is it leftw^thout a base, the other two showing a vari
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . c .:!?. Pig. Ti. Tower of the Winds, Athens. 136 STUDY OF THE ORDERS form. The columns of these three examples are showm at their fullheight in Plate XLVHI, where they are arranged so as to be easilycompared for the differences in the proportions of the shafts and theirentasis, as well as for the purpose of contrasting the different Greektypes of the capital itself. In all three, the shaft of the column isfluted; and in only one—that of the Temple of the Winds—is it leftw^thout a base, the other two showing a variation of the Attic Orders must be separately described, inasmuch as there arecertain peculiarities in each that may be attributed in part to the in-dividual requirements of the separate problems involved. Tower of the Winds. The cu-rious specimen of the CorinthianOrder offered by the variation usedon the Tower of the Winds atAthens (Fig. 72), is well worthy ofstudy. The column, while of thethree examples just mentioned thelatest in date, is still the crudest inform, th
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