The history and rudiments of architecture; embracing, IThe orders of architecture; IIArchitectural styles of various countries; IIIThe nature and principles of design in architecture; and, IVAn accurate and complete glossary of architectural terms .. . Dentels. p^:Frieze. ^OE53 y (?OUUt-H-t ^X-K-J-LJLjCTCjLJt Architrave, i^ Volutes )leaves. /. , fPlinth. L aZJ 3u I and perhaps it might lead OF ARCHITECTURE. 41 the reader to the conclusion, that the Composite should beconsidered not as a separate Order, but as a modificationof the Corinthian. COLUMNIATION. Co
The history and rudiments of architecture; embracing, IThe orders of architecture; IIArchitectural styles of various countries; IIIThe nature and principles of design in architecture; and, IVAn accurate and complete glossary of architectural terms .. . Dentels. p^:Frieze. ^OE53 y (?OUUt-H-t ^X-K-J-LJLjCTCjLJt Architrave, i^ Volutes )leaves. /. , fPlinth. L aZJ 3u I and perhaps it might lead OF ARCHITECTURE. 41 the reader to the conclusion, that the Composite should beconsidered not as a separate Order, but as a modificationof the Corinthian. COLUMNIATION. Columns and entablatures, in themselves, do not, properlyspeaking, constitute an Order, although they serve as speci-mens of it. They must enter into, and regulate the organiza-tion of a structure, before they can become, by composition,what is strictly termed an Order. As exhibited in theirtemples, the system of coluinniation practised by the ancientswas strictly organic and natural. Instead of being somethingaccessory, supplementary to, and independent of, the fabric,that might be either omitted or applied at pleasure, ascommonly practised in Italian and modern composition, theOrder itself constituted the exterior of the building, at leastof that side or front of it where it was introduced, when itwas not continued throughout; so that the Order and itsdi
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