10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DODECASTYLE»
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1
The Gentleman's Magazine
The fact is, the portico is not dodecastyle, as might be inferred from her remark,
but octastyle; that is, there are eight columns in front, projecting one intercolumn
in advance of the general line of the facade; and behind is an inner range of four
...
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The Gentleman's Magazine
... the portico is not dodecastyle, as might be inferred from her remark, - but
octastyle ; that is, there are eight columns in front, projecting one intercolumn in
advance of the general line of the facade; and behind is an inner range of four
columns ...
3
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or Dictionary of Arts, ...
Ditriglyph (Gr. Sis, twice, and triglyph, q. v.), an intercolumniation in the Doric
order, of two triglyphs. (See Monotriglyph.) Dodecastyle (Gr. Sat&eKa, twrelve,
and otuAos, a column), a portico of twelve columns in front. (See note to
Hexastyle.) ...
4
The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England)
wap. But this proportion, here, of the octastyle is by no means offered as the
probable ordination of Ctesi- phon ; it is merely introduced to convince Oblervator
that the dodecastyle has not the exclusive privilege of coincidence with Pliny's ...
5
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
... or inner portico behind the columns in front. According to the number of
columns in front, porticos are said to be tetrastyle, that is, with four columns ;
hexastyle, with six ; octastyle, with eight ; deca- style, with ten ; and dodecastyle,
with twelve ...
6
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle
... Ityle diptcre ; but more especially from their coinciding so completely with a
dodecastyle as not to admit of a fraction (Ice p. 121); which could not have
happened by accident, if intended, as supposed by Philotechnon, sot an
octastyle diptere.
7
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle Vol. LXXI.
But this proportion, here, of the oftaftyle is by no means offered as the probable
ordination of Ctcti- plion ; it is merely introduced to convince Obscrvator that the
dodecastyle has not the exclusive privilege os coincidence with Pliny's
dimensions, ...
8
THE Gentleman's Magazine: AND Historical Chronicle
Thus the plan of a dodecastyle diptere may be Completed perfectly agreeable to
the documents of Vitruvius, and to the dimensions of PJiny, except the addition of.
one column more lo the 23 in the sides. It {a likewise remarkable, though the.
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Treatise on Architecture: Including the Arts of ...
2, exhibits an example of distyle in antis. DmuGLYPH (Gr. 8«, twice, and triglyph,
q. ».), an inter- columniation in the Doric order, of two triglyphs. (See
MONOTRIQLYPH.) DODECASTYLE (Gr. SuScKo, twelve, and <m>Xos, a column
), a portico ...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
Dodecastyle, in architecture, III. 509. Dodington (Bubb), VIL 682 ; XIL 797. Dodo,
an extinct bird, VIIL 88; XIV. 363 ; XVL 796 ; XVIL 156, 633, 687— Strickland's
work on, XX 782. Dodona, town of Epirus, and seat of an oracle, VIIL 88; XV. 766.
Thomas Stewart Traill, 1860
