. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. ety that allows almost any characteristic of theorder, however salient, to be varied according to the taste anddiscretion of the architect. Still, the mutules of the cornice,the frieze with triglyphs and metopes, the architrave mouldedwith only a single fillet along its upper edge, the capital consist-ing of a plain, uncarved echinus, circular in plan, beneath asquare abacus; the severe and heavy shaft with (usually) twentyflutes meeting in sharp arrises: — all these are features peculiarto, and g
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. ety that allows almost any characteristic of theorder, however salient, to be varied according to the taste anddiscretion of the architect. Still, the mutules of the cornice,the frieze with triglyphs and metopes, the architrave mouldedwith only a single fillet along its upper edge, the capital consist-ing of a plain, uncarved echinus, circular in plan, beneath asquare abacus; the severe and heavy shaft with (usually) twentyflutes meeting in sharp arrises: — all these are features peculiarto, and generally present in, the Doric order. The Greek Doricis distinguished from other Dorics primarily by that intangiblething we call refinement. The proportions are always good;in the best examples they are exquisite. The profiles of theGreek mouldings are of wonderful delicacy and beauty, beingcarefully studied arcs of parabolas, hyperbolas, or ellipses,almost never segments of a circle. Similarly the echinus or thecapital is a hyperbolic curve — sometimes widely bulging in 4 UUiHk^- >i^. 3.— Greek Ornamenls. Fig. 1, 2,4. Meamlers V:isc raiiicmi;-. I i- ? l»..iiMe Me- aiuler from tlie Abacus of a Doric Capital. ImV. .). Simple (iiiillnclic li ;i \ aM Iaiiifing. Fif. (i. 7. Canci Double (iiiillochcs. Fij;. S. Flic Vitnivian Scnill. Fi;;. i). Fra;;rMciil of theKiitaMalurc of the Tholos of Fpidauros
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