 ... to the option of the artists. The capitals of the Grecian columns invariably mark the distinction of the several orders : those of the Indian are varied at pleasure, though not without regard to the diameter and length of the shaft ; and the forms...  Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús - Page 40by Ram Raz, Rām Rāz - 1834 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oriental Translation Fund - 1834 - 210 pages
...architecture, as are found in the Grecian, but the spaces allowed between pillar and pillar in different Hindú buildings, are found nearly to coincide with the Grecian...with a sort of filligree ornaments, as to destroy the eifect of the beautiful proportions of the whole. The Egyptian capitals, on the other hand, are formed... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1834 - 408 pages
...the plainest of them, though they have in reality no271 130 thing in common with the Grecian orders, are found at a distant view to bear some resemblance...elaborate kind are sometimes so overloaded with a sort of filigree ornaments, as to destroy the effect of the beautiful proportions of the whole. The Egyptian... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1834 - 416 pages
...the plainest of them, though they have in reality no• 130 thing in common with the Grecian orders, are found at a distant view to bear some resemblance...elaborate kind are sometimes so overloaded with a sort of filigree ornaments, as to destroy the effect of the beautiful proportions of the whole. The Egyptian... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - 1903 - 380 pages
...to the diameters and length of the shaft ; and the forms of the plainest of them, though they have nothing in common with the Grecian order, are found,...elaborate kind are sometimes so overloaded with a sort of filigree ornament as to destroy the effect of the beautiful proportion of the whole." There has been... | |
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