This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...in a similar manner, what has been said on the Doric order will render it unnecessary to repeat the same things in the Ionic, as such mouldings cannot form a distinctive feature of any particular order. The subjoined definitions show how these members ought to be modified so that they may constitute the Ionic order. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...in a similar manner, what has been said on the Doric order will render it unnecessary to repeat the same things in the Ionic, as such mouldings cannot form a distinctive feature of any particular order. The subjoined definitions show how these members ought to be modified so that they may constitute the Ionic order. DEFINITIONS. 1. If from the under side of the abacus of an order there project two or more spirals on each end of the front, in a plane parallel to the frieze, so that the extremity of each shall be at the same distance from the axis of the column, and also two others upon the opposite side of the abacus, parallel to the former and projecting the same distance from the axis of the column, so that each of the spirals shall have the same number of revolutions, and equal and similar to each other, the projecting part contained between any two spirals is called a volute. 2. An order which has volutes and mouldings in the capital of the annular kind, and the ichnography of the abacus square, as in the Doric order, the architrave finishing of plain facia, and mouldings either plain or enriched, the frieze a plain surface, the cornice consisting of a cyma recta, then a fillet, and an echinus only; and if to the under side of the corona are hung a row of equal and similar parallelopipeds, equidistant from each other, whose fronts are in a plane parallel to that of the frieze, then each of these is called a dentil. 3. An order so constructed is similar to that invented by the Ionians, and, consequently, is the Ionic order. FROM THE TEMPLE OP BACCHUS AT TEOS, IN IONIA. This temple was first begun of the Doric order by Hermogenus; but afterwards he changed it into that of the Ionic, and dedicated it to Bacchus. This example is drawn from the accura...
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