Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . be hard, nor full enough to be weak ineffect, until in the Parthenon and Tholos of Epidauros it is refined toan almost straight line. The compared sections of capitals fromCorinth, Paestum, the Temple of Concord at Agrigentum, and theParthenon at Athens, (showTi in Fig. 38), illustrate this progress. Thevarious sections of this cap moulding, from the early, fuller, rounderexamples where it spreads out far beyond the shaft, along with thedifferent ways of expressing the variously termed annulets or filletsthat sepa
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . be hard, nor full enough to be weak ineffect, until in the Parthenon and Tholos of Epidauros it is refined toan almost straight line. The compared sections of capitals fromCorinth, Paestum, the Temple of Concord at Agrigentum, and theParthenon at Athens, (showTi in Fig. 38), illustrate this progress. Thevarious sections of this cap moulding, from the early, fuller, rounderexamples where it spreads out far beyond the shaft, along with thedifferent ways of expressing the variously termed annulets or filletsthat separate this moulding from the fluted necking below, show howcarefully the Greek sculptors experimented in order to obtain just theeffect that they desired. In the later periods of Greek architecturethe outline of this echinus moulding is as simple, delicate, and beauti-ful as any detail that the Greeks have made; and in the best examplesit may be considered typical of the Tenement and proportions of theirarchitecture. The character of this section,showing die echinus mould- 88. Greek Doric the Parthenon at Athens. STUDY OF THE ORDERS 81 ing itself in proportion to theabacus, the character of thefillets that divide it from thefluted necking, and the varioussectns of the recesses takingthe piace of an astragal thatseparate it from the shaft, areshowTi more fully in Figs. 39,40, 41, 42, 43 and 44. Thesesame illustrations ?s\dll indicatethe relations of the columndiameter at the neck and , while interesting in trac-ing the development of thecolumn, none of the examplesare so perfect or so well worthyof reproduction as that usedin the Parthenon, shown at alarger size in Plate is also generally con-ceded that the individual partsof Greek architecture appearto best advantage when thegeneral form of the buildingitself is Greek. Indeed, thebeautiful flat curves andmouldings of this style arequite at variance with anythingelse than the low pediment,flat roof,
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