"Origin of the Corinthian Capital" - by P. Leyendecker, from the exhibition in the French Gallery, Pall-Mall, 1876. 'On the death of a young lover gathered the ornaments she had most placed them in a wicker basket, covered by a tile, upon her acanthus had taken root, and its graceful leaves shooting round the basket and reverted beneath the tile in the form of volutes. Attracted by the beauty of the acanthus , the sculptor, and reputed inventor of the Corinthian order, made it the basis, or "motif," for t
"Origin of the Corinthian Capital" - by P. Leyendecker, from the exhibition in the French Gallery, Pall-Mall, 1876. 'On the death of a young lover gathered the ornaments she had most placed them in a wicker basket, covered by a tile, upon her acanthus had taken root, and its graceful leaves shooting round the basket and reverted beneath the tile in the form of volutes. Attracted by the beauty of the acanthus , the sculptor, and reputed inventor of the Corinthian order, made it the basis, or "motif," for the tile forming the abacus, the foliage the volutes, and the whole forming the summit of the elegant column which is the chief characteristic of the final development of Greek for the romantic story, there were Corinthian capitals previous to the time of Callimachus - , about 540 '. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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