Vintage Architecture, Decorative Capital Crown Mouse Pad
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Vintage illustration Renaissance Era architecture image featuring architectural elements, two views of a capital from the Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, 1562. In classical architecture, the capital forms the crowning member of a column or a pilaster. The capital projects on each side as it rises, to support the abacus and unite the form of the latter (normally square) with the circular shaft of the column. The term capital comes from the Latin caput, "head."