Rudiments of ancient architecture, containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions, and examples of each from antiques also, extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c. relative to the buildings of the ancients (London, 1810 (4. Aufl.))

42 RUDIMENTS OF

regard to their uses, and so disposed, that
the straight and curved ones succeed each
other alternately. In every profile there
should be a predominant member, to
which all the others ought to be subser-
vient, and seem either made to support,
to fortify, or to shelter it from the injury
of the weather, as in a cornice where the
corona is principal, the cyma or cavetto
cover it, and the modillions, denteles,
ovolo, and talon support it."

" When ornaments are employed to
adorn the mouldings, some of them should
be left plain, in order to form a proper
repose; for, when all are enriched, the
figure of the profile is lost. In a cornice
the corona should not be ornamented, nor
the modillion band ; neither should the
different facias of architraves, the plinths
of columns, fillets, nor scarce any square
member, be carved ; for they are, gene-
rally speaking, either principal in the com-
position, or used as boundaries to other
parts; in either of which cases, their
figures should be distinct and unembar-
rassed. The dentele band should remain
uncut, where the ovolo and talon imme-