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Updated: May 26, 2025
"It was a beautiful thing really, Ma'am, measuring eighteen by twenty-four feet, and made up of three hundred and fifty pieces of glass set in metal astragals, so cleverly worked into the shadows that the whole affair appeared like one piece.
Let three of these compose the first fascia with its astragal, four the second, and five the third, the fasciae with their astragals running side by side all round. The cornices of Ionic doorways should be constructed in the same manner as those of Doric, in due proportions.
One of the women has her hand on the arm of a chained warrior, and the other has at her feet military trophies; among which bucklers, arms, and trumpets, may be seen. The pilasters that bound the intercolumniations are of the Doric order, and their capitals support the arch. The cornice and astragals form a frieze, in which military emblems and symbols of sacrifice are intermingled.
Three of these parts constitute the torus at the top, and the other four are to be divided equally, one part constituting the upper trochilus with its astragals and overhang, the other left for the lower trochilus. But the lower will seem to be larger, because it will project to the edge of the plinth. The astragals must be one eighth of the trochilus.
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