A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1896)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London, Oxford, J. Parker and Co. · leaf 189
tion a quarter- circle, and is not quirked; under the ovolo are two or three small fillets, and below them a collarino or neck. According to the Homan method of working this order, the triglyphs at the angles of buildings must be placed over the centre of the column, and the metopes must be exact… … of the capital uniform, the sides of the abacus being worked hollow like the Corinthian ; the principal mould- ing is an ovolo, or echinus, which is overhung by the volutes, and is almost invariably carved ; sometimes also other enrichments are introduced upon the capital: in
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