Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building - a general reference work (1912) (14758912646)

Identifier: cyclopediaofarch08ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American Technical Society
Subjects: Architecture Building
Publisher: Chicago : American Technical Society
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ens)and one of the late Orders (that of the Temple of Saturn at Rome)are both shown together. The first is partly Greek, and thereforerestrained in its design; the last, wholly Roman and therefore over-florid in its ornamentation. Vignolas Corinthian Order. The Order shown in Fig. 132 is theversion of Roman Corinthian given by Vignola, and, while founded onold examples, it actually dates from the period of the Renaissance.To this same time also belongs the example shown in Plate LV, dis-playing the method of construction, Vignolas example of the Corinthian Order is supposed to bederived from the various monuments in Rome, and particularly fromthe circular Temple of the Pantheon, and from three columns whichare still standing to-day in the Roman Forum. After having comparedall their details and proportions, he established a rule which, withoutmaterially differing from the ancient forms, gives such a relation thata modillion always occurs on the axis of the column; and the eggs-and- 240
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Roraau Corinthian Columns from Temple of Castor and Pollux.In the Forum, Rome.