Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . Fig. 78. Plan of the Tholos at Epidauros. building, is the form U) which the Greeks themselves are most partialand which tliey evidently as the interesting develoj)-ment of this purely geometrical ornament to which they had carving of the separate members, from the interior entablature,shown in detail on this same plate, is exceptionally beautiful and purein its type; while the miming dog, taken from the panel in the soffit ofthe ambulatory between the Gorinthian columns and the wall
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . Fig. 78. Plan of the Tholos at Epidauros. building, is the form U) which the Greeks themselves are most partialand which tliey evidently as the interesting develoj)-ment of this purely geometrical ornament to which they had carving of the separate members, from the interior entablature,shown in detail on this same plate, is exceptionally beautiful and purein its type; while the miming dog, taken from the panel in the soffit ofthe ambulatory between the Gorinthian columns and the wall of thebuilding, is especially interesting in its sectional treatment. The colunm here employed is higher than in the earlier examples,being ten diameters in height; but it will be observed that most of this 128. Greek Corinthian the Tholos, Eoidauros ITRMNFOroMr
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