This entasis was surrounded by a row of leaves, again characterizing the ascending bundle as stems. |
I have to use this entasis, because if you let the edges go straight, the frontal plane of the painting will shoot out at the corners. |
This peculiarity is a convexity, or entasis, as it is called, on the inner faces. |
The Ionic column, thus made of greater proportional height, had diminution and entasis like the Doric. |
This is called the entasis of the spire, and belongs to the study of optics in architecture. |
The entasis of this skyscraper, like that of a Doric column, leads to a new kind of propositional beauty, one worked out digitally. |