...cornices, pedestals, and entablatures. When employed in the latter, it often connects utility \vith beauty, in as much as the beak of the bird is so placed...and projection. Of all the rectangular mouldings, a campa (2) has the least height, audits projection, though generally equal to its altitude, frequently...

...name. It is a crowning member of cornices, pedestals, and entablatures ; the beak of the bird serving the purpose of a spout to throw off the water falling on the cornice, and in this respect performing the office of the Grecian corona. For the composition of pedestals,...

...name. It is a crowning member of cornices, pedestals, and entablatures; the beak of the bird serving the purpose of a spout to throw off the water falling on the cornice, and in this respect performing the office of the Grecian corona. For the composition of pedestals,...

...pedestals, and entablatures. When employed in the latter, it often connects utility with beauty, inasmuch as the beak of the bird is so placed as to serve the...spout to throw off the water falling on the cornice." 3 Many varieties of pillars are described, the proportions of height to diameter, and of each portion...

...pedestals, and entablatures. When employed in the latter, it often connects utility with beauty, inasmuch as the beak of the bird is so placed as to serve the purpose of a spout." 31. Herewith are the characteristics of temples described in compendious form; it contains (in the...

...capota is a section of the moulding made in the form of a pigeon's head from which it takes its name. The beak of the bird is so placed as to serve the purpose of a spout to throw off the water (vide Manasara, Chapters xiii and xiv). In this respect it resembles in some measure, the Corona of...