An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . Modillion. Truss. [The term taenia is usuaUy con-fined to the Doric order.] ^ [In the Corinthian order, and inmany examples of the Ionic, thesediTisions do not exist. In the Com-posite order the part below the ovolo IS called the vase, bell, or body of thecapital. In fact, the vase is the capproper, round which the canlicoli andleayes are grouped merely as a deco-ration. In the vase-shaped Egyptiancapitals this is very evident.] GRECIAN ARCHIT


An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England, from the conquest to the reformation : with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders . Modillion. Truss. [The term taenia is usuaUy con-fined to the Doric order.] ^ [In the Corinthian order, and inmany examples of the Ionic, thesediTisions do not exist. In the Com-posite order the part below the ovolo IS called the vase, bell, or body of thecapital. In fact, the vase is the capproper, round which the canlicoli andleayes are grouped merely as a deco-ration. In the vase-shaped Egyptiancapitals this is very evident.] GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. 9 r


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