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Caryatis from the Erechtheum at Athens, Profile Caryatides are a blending of architecture and sculpture, but they are not of frequent occurrence. These Caryatides are human figures which serve as supports instead of a column, and a similar purpose ... |
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Ceiling Panel Ceiling of Pleroma, Parthenon.... |
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Choragic Monument "Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, Athens." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893... |
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Cippus "A low column, sometimes round, but more frequently rectangular. Cippi were used for various purposes; the decrees of the senate were sometimes inscribed upon them; and with distances engraved upon th... |
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Colosseum The Greek Colosseum.... |
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Column The columns at Knossos tapered downward and bore simple heavy torus capitals.... |
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Column from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Athens, Ionic Angle (Front) The good effect of the Ionic capital is really only produced by the front-view. It seems calculated to be introduced between pillars and antæ, and not in a disconnected peristyle with with angle... |
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Column from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Athens, Ionic Angle (Side) The good effect of the Ionic capital is really only produced by the front-view. It seems calculated to be introduced between pillars and antæ, and not in a disconnected peristyle with with angle... |
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Column from the Temple of Neptune at Paestum, Doric The Doric columns, which are short, powerful, and closely ranged together, in order to support the weight of the massive entablature, consist of the shaft and the capital, and rest immediately without... |
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Columna "A pillar or column. The use of the trunks of trees placed upright for supporting buildings, unquestionably led to the adoption of similar supports wrought in stone. As the tree required to be based u... |
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Columna Columna Rostrata and Column Trojana.... |
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Console Console or cantilever from Erechtheion.... |
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Corinthian Capital Corinthian capital from Temple of Zeus at Athens.... |
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Corinthian Capital Early Corinthian capital from Bassae.... |
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Corinthian Capital Capital from "Tower of the Winds" Athens.... |
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Corinthian Capital A basket with acanthus leaves growing around it—the supposed inspiration for the Corinthian capital.... |
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Corinthian Order, Greek The Corinthian order is one of the Classical orders of Greek and Roman architecture, characterized by a slender fluted column and an ornate capital decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls. Although... |
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Cornice from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene, Ionic The entablature resting on the columns has three parts: a plain architrave divided into two, or more generally three, bands, with a frieze resting on it that may be richly sculptural, and a cornice bu... |
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Cornice, Corinthian The Corinthian cornice is only distinguished from the Ionic by its mutules and modillions, which take the place of the dentels in the latter style. They are fewer in number, but richer and more orname... |
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Coryatic Portico "Coryatic Portico of Temple in Acropolic, Athens." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893... |
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Cretan Palace "A colonnaded hall and staircase in the Cretan palace at Cnossus." -Breasted, 1914... |
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Cretan Palace "Tile drainpipes from the Cretan Palace of Cnossus."... |
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Cyclopean "Ancient "Cyclopean" Wall" — Morey, 1903... |
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Cyrus, tomb of "Cyrus caught sight of his brother Artaxerxes, whose person was revealed by the flight of his troops, when, maddened at once by rage and ambition, he shouted out, "I see the man!" and rushed at him wi... |
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Dionysus "The Theater of Dionysus (Restoration)" — Morey, 1903... |
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