The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius. Comprising Those Books of the Author Which Relate to the Public And Private Edifices of the Ancients
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There is but one instance existing where such an inclination of the shafts of the columns is observed, which is the temple of the Syl)il at Tivoli. We no where find it adopted in peripteral temples; and its existence in this building is not sufficient for inducing a belief that the practice was commonly adopted: for although the general effect of the temple is pleasing, it exhibits in its details such a depravity of taste as amounts to a conviction, that it was constructed during the decline of... the arts in Italy. An inclination, although by no means so great, is observable in the engaged columns in the west front of the Erectheum at Athens; but its introduction arose from the propriety of making a fluted column, when inserted in the wall of the cella, somewhat more than half an entire column.
Fig. 1. A section through the lateral walls of a temple, havinsT columns inserted in the same manner as those of the Erectheum. The reason for making the columns more than semifrusta seems evidently to have been, in order that the llilJL l„nj,;, ri,llUh,.l,isil„.1^Ju^h hvL«m„min Hum R,,^, ih;,,, X- Hr,„.„.
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There is but one instance existing where such an inclination of the shafts of the columns is observed, which is the temple of the Syl)il at Tivoli. We no where find it adopted in peripteral temples; and its existence in this building is not sufficient for inducing a belief that the practice was commonly adopted: for although the general effect of the temple is pleasing, it exhibits in its details such a depravity of taste as amounts to a conviction, that it was constructed during the decline of... the arts in Italy. An inclination, although by no means so great, is observable in the engaged columns in the west front of the Erectheum at Athens; but its introduction arose from the propriety of making a fluted column, when inserted in the wall of the cella, somewhat more than half an entire column.
Fig. 1. A section through the lateral walls of a temple, havinsT columns inserted in the same manner as those of the Erectheum. The reason for making the columns more than semifrusta seems evidently to have been, in order that the llilJL l„nj,;, ri,llUh,.l,isil„.1^Ju^h hvL«m„min Hum R,,^, ih;,,, X- Hr,„.„.
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