Identifier: fiveordersofarch00vign (find matches)
Title: The five orders of architecture
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Vignola, 1507-1573 Juglaris, Tommaso Locke, Warren S
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: (Boston, Press of Berwick & Smith)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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n the plan,they alternate round the column. The stems of the upper leaves come between the lowerleaves, and the stem from which spring the volutes comesfrom the space between the upper leaves, making the anglevolute, and the smaller middle one. Over the small volutesin the middle of each side of the table, or abacus, of thecapital is a flower or rosette. The table is formed of three mouldings ; at the top aquarter-rounc^ then a fillet, and then the abacus. The plan of the Capital is a hollow-sided square, havingdiagonals 4 moduli long. On one side of this square con-struct an equilateral triangle. The outside angle of this triangle will be the center foran arc of a circle forming one side of the table. The plan and elevation, together with this description,are suflicient to make the whole subject clear. In the elevation, the projection and elevation of the leavesare shown, touching a line tangent to abacus and top beadof column. The plan is indispensable in constructing the elevation.
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PLATE XXII. THE CORINTHIAN ENTABLATURE, This Entablature is taken from various places in Eome,but chiefly from tlie rotunda of the Forum. The total height is \ the height of the column, with baseand capital, or 5 moduli, divided in the proportions 3, o,and 4. The architrave is l^- moduli high divided into 3bands. The frieze is 1^ moduli high, and at the top is ornamentedby a fillet and a bead. The cornice is 2 moduli high, with 2 moduli and 2 partsprojection. The mouldings are easily understood from theplate. One bracket must come exactly in line with the centerof a column. The ornaments on the mouldings, the dentils, etc., mustalways be spaced in the same regular order.

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