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and majestic. When Hermogenes built the temple of Bacchus, at Teos, he rejected the Doric a er the marbles had been prepared, and in its stead adopted the Ionic. The temples of Diana at Ephesus, of Apollo at Miletus, and of the Delphic oracle, were of this order. Michael Angelo, contrary to all other authors, gives the Ionic a single row of leaves at the bottom of the capital.
· 8. The Corinthian, the nest of all the orders, and as rst used at Corinth, is expressive of delicacy, ten­ derness, and beauty. The capital, so rich and grace­ l, was suggested to Callimachus, by an acanthus entwining its leaves around a votive basket, that adorned the grave of an illustrious young lady. The column is ten diameters high.
9. The Co osite order, invented, it is said, by the Romans, partakes of the Ionic and Corinthian orders ; but principally of the latter. Its column is ten diameters high, and its cornice has denticles, or simple modillions.
10. Gothic architecture has numerous and promi­ nent buttresses, lofty spires and pinnacles, lagr e and rami ed windows, ornamental niches and canopies, with sculptured saints and angels, delicate lace-work, etted roofs, and an indiscriminate profusion of o a­ ments. But its most distinguishing characters are small clustered pillars and pointed arches, rmed by the segments of two intersecting circles. This style is supposed by some to be of Arabian origin, intro­ duced into Europe by the crusaders, or those who made pilgrimages to the Holy Land; while Dr.
::Milner thinks we are indebted r it to the Anglo­ Normans and the English.
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