. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The Candelabrum Capital. Plate 137. 224 Plate 138. The Bala,uster. The Balauster. — The Teiminus. 225 Plate 138. The Balauster. 1. Square plan, Italian Renascence, Sta. Maria della Salute,Venice. 2. A system of square Balausters, Palazzo Pesaro, Venice. 3. Circular plan, Modern Italian. 4. Wood, Italian Eenascence, stalls in Sta. Maria Novella, Flo-rence. 5. Modem French, Architect Roux, Paris. 6—7. Square wooden, (Bethke: Der decorative Hol
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The Candelabrum Capital. Plate 137. 224 Plate 138. The Bala,uster. The Balauster. — The Teiminus. 225 Plate 138. The Balauster. 1. Square plan, Italian Renascence, Sta. Maria della Salute,Venice. 2. A system of square Balausters, Palazzo Pesaro, Venice. 3. Circular plan, Modern Italian. 4. Wood, Italian Eenascence, stalls in Sta. Maria Novella, Flo-rence. 5. Modem French, Architect Roux, Paris. 6—7. Square wooden, (Bethke: Der decorative Holzbauer).8—9. Modern, terracotta. The Terminus. (Plate 139.) The Terminus is a pilaster-like support, the fundamental formof which is characterized by tapering downwards in a manner re-calling an inverted Obelisk. The name is derived from the fact thatsimiliar constructions were used in the Antique as milestones and tomark the Terminations of fields, &c. The Terminus consists of theprofiled base, not infrequently supported on a special pedestal (figs. 3and 7); the shaft tapering downwards and usually ornamented withfestoons (figs. 3, 4, 5, 10); and the capital, which., is often
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