Show C Columns in Architecture The use of columns as s construction construction- constructional al lit units of ot modern dwellings and public pub pub- lie lic buildings Is la an outgrowth of ot the classical revival In Ital Italy during the Fifteenth century Upon the fall of Constantinople In 1453 and sad the cone con sequent dissemination of Greek Creek Ideas of ef f art and literature and life medieval forms of at decoration were exchanged for the classical Order and proper propel tion became the principles of art rath rath- I er r elaboration of detail Tb Tb-e arch yielded Ita to the column as the leading motif in In architecture In America under the influence of ot England as well as of or France and Italy Italy- the classical spirit found Its expression ex ex- n In architecture In New Englund and In the tho South where the pure English I strain was Wall maintained to a high degree the Geor Georgian an type of home homens wee was full fully Cc accepted This type wee was as developed In the classical spirit by men like Inigo Jones J and Sir Christopher Wren In I 0 1 L the reigns of William and ilary Mary and Queen Anne and adopted In in the colonies colonies col cot onies In the rei reign reica of George I. I It Is II IIa Isa a style especially suitable to the condition condition con con- of southern society ef f the Eighteenth Country century century Country Homes |