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Old 11-04-2020, 06:31 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Really impressive the size and everything that had to go into creating it.


It's bigger than I thought also.
Thanks for the extra photos -this one particularly shows that it's much bigger than I thought too. I always thought the Lincoln Statue was just a shelf ornament

...and the building is such a good example of the Doric Order that it reminds me of illustrations I used to pour over in pre-internet days:-

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The same way a doctor learns a zillion different words in anatomy, architecture also has a name for every bit of classical building: the volutes, the dentils, the ovolu moldings!

What's your favourite Order?
If pushed, I'd probably break the rules and do some mix and match: a Doric entablature on Ionic columns.

In fact, I just noticed that the L M is also an exercise in mix-and-match: Doric columns outside, Ionic columns inside:-

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