A Treatise On the Five Orders of Architecture
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The ancients sometimes made the shaft of the Doric col- umn prismatic, as appears by a passage in the fourth book of Vitruvius; and at other times they adorned it with a particular kind of shallow flutings, described from the centre of a square, no interval or fillet being left between them. Of this sort, there are now some columns to be seen in the temples of Paestum, near Naples, in different parts of Sicily, and in the church of St. Peter in Catenis, at Eome.
The first of these manners has n...ot, I believe, been imitated by any of the modern masters; nor is the second very fre- quent; Scamozzi blames it for its want of solidity; the projecting angles between the flutings being easily broken, and, if the material be soft, very subject to moulder.
Vitruvius gives to the height of the Doric capital one module ; and all the moderns, except Alberti, have followed his example. Nevertheless, as it is of the same kind with the Tuscan, they should both bear nearly the same pro- portion to the heigbths of their respective columns, and consequently the Doric capital ought to be more than one module, which it accordingly is, both at the Coliseum and in the theatre of Marcellus, being, in the former of these buildings, upwards of thirty-eight minutes, and, in the latter, thirty-tbree minutes high.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The ancients sometimes made the shaft of the Doric col- umn prismatic, as appears by a passage in the fourth book of Vitruvius; and at other times they adorned it with a particular kind of shallow flutings, described from the centre of a square, no interval or fillet being left between them. Of this sort, there are now some columns to be seen in the temples of Paestum, near Naples, in different parts of Sicily, and in the church of St. Peter in Catenis, at Eome.
The first of these manners has n...ot, I believe, been imitated by any of the modern masters; nor is the second very fre- quent; Scamozzi blames it for its want of solidity; the projecting angles between the flutings being easily broken, and, if the material be soft, very subject to moulder.
Vitruvius gives to the height of the Doric capital one module ; and all the moderns, except Alberti, have followed his example. Nevertheless, as it is of the same kind with the Tuscan, they should both bear nearly the same pro- portion to the heigbths of their respective columns, and consequently the Doric capital ought to be more than one module, which it accordingly is, both at the Coliseum and in the theatre of Marcellus, being, in the former of these buildings, upwards of thirty-eight minutes, and, in the latter, thirty-tbree minutes high.
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