A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ds ofwhich only are worked into thevolutes. This flat talile beingsupported by an ovolo moidding,forming a complete circle andresting upon the shaft, andadorned with very large oves,needs nothing but tlie refinementof its parts to make it the per-fected capital of the refinement was more neededin the Ionic capital than in some others, becausethe form is in itself somewhat iiTational, andsuggests in a disagreeable way the oozing out ofa more plastic material under the superincumbentweight. Th


A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ds ofwhich only are worked into thevolutes. This flat talile beingsupported by an ovolo moidding,forming a complete circle andresting upon the shaft, andadorned with very large oves,needs nothing but tlie refinementof its parts to make it the per-fected capital of the refinement was more neededin the Ionic capital than in some others, becausethe form is in itself somewhat iiTational, andsuggests in a disagreeable way the oozing out ofa more plastic material under the superincumbentweight. Thoughts of this kind disapjiear whenthe highly wrought design of the fifth centurycapital is studied. The fiuting of the shaftdoes not appear in the earliest cxam|)les ; but,in those which seem to be of the fifth century,494 Dome des Invalides; IONIC ORDER like that of Delphi mentioned above, there arechannels like of tlie Doric columns, butmore numerous, and in the fifth century these aresucceeded by the well-known flutiugs, twenty-four in number, and separated by narrow fil-.


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