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Elements of Architecture, ix
. And the Compound Order, or, as some call it, the ^oman, others more
generally, the Italian.
In which five Orders I will sirft confider their Communities, and then
their Properties.
Their Communities sas sar as I obferve) are principally Three : Firft,
They are all round, sor though some conceive ColumnaJtticurges, mentioned
by VitruYms, L. 3. Cap. 3. to have been a fcjuared Pillar, yet we must.pass
it over as irregular, never received among thefe Orders, no more than cer-
tain other licentious Inventions os wreathed, and vined, and sigured Co-
lumns, which our Author himsels condemneth, being in his whole Book
a proseffed Enemy to Fancies.
Secondly, They are all diminished or contracted insenfibly, more or less,
according to the Proportion of their Heights, from one third Part of the
whole Shast upwards, which (philander doth prescribe by his own precise
measuring os the ancient Remainders, as the most graceful Diminution.
And here I muft take leave to blame a Practice grown (I know not how)
in certain Places too samiliar, of making Pillars fwell in the middle, as if
they were fick of fome Tympany or Dropfy, without any authentick Pat-
tern or Rule, to my Knowledge, and unseemly to the very Judgement of
Sight. True it is, that mVitruYius, Lib. it. Cap. 2. we find these Words5 De
adjetlione, qu£ adjicitur in mediis Columnis 5 qu£ apud Grecos Evtoutk appellatur, in
extremo libro erit formatio ejus5 which Paffage leerneth to have given fpme
countenance to this Error. But of the Promife there made, as of diverfe
other elfewhere, our Matter hath failed us, either by flip of Memory, or in-
jury of Time, and fo we are left in the Dark. Always fure I am, that be-
sides the Authority of Example, which it wanteth, it is likewife contrary to
the original and natural Type inTrees, which at first was imitated in Pillars,
as VitruYms himfelf obferveth, Lib. 5. Cap. 1. For whoever faw any Cyprefs
or Pine (which are there alledged) fmall below and above ^ and tumerous in
the middle, unlefsit were fome difeafed Plant, as Nature (though otherwife
the comlieft Miftrefs) hath now and then her Deformities and Irregularities.
Thirdly, They have all their Underfettings or Pedeftals, in Height a third
part of the whole Column, comprehending the Bafe and Capital, and
their upper Adjuncts, asArchitrave, Frize, and Cornice, a sourth part os the
faid Pillar 5 which Rule, os fingular Ufe and Facility, I find fettled by Jacobs
Baroccio, and hold him a more credible Author, as a Man that moft intend-
ed this Piece, than any that vary srom him in those Dimenfions.
These are their most confiderable Communities and Agreements.
Their Properties or Distinctions will beft appear by fome reafonable De-
scription of them all, together with their Architraves, Frizes, and Cornices,
as they are ufually handled.
Firft, theresore the Tufcan is a plain, maffy, rural Pillar, resembling
some sturdy well-limbed Labourer, homely clad, in which kind os Com-
parisons VitruYms himfels seemeth to take Pleasure, Lib. 4. Cap. 1. The
Length thereos mall be six Diameters, os the groiTest of the Pillar below,
os all Proportions in truth the most natural 5 for our Author tells us, Lib. 3.
Cap. \. that the Foot of a Man is the fixth Part os his Body in ordinary Mea-
sure5 and Man himfels, according to the Saying os Protagoras (which Ari-
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dot
lcS<Miere
rJ7 m the Pro,
* Ancients,
& now utterly
not fo much
as when Brick
leads together,
A cill it, ^
Aoe^ tW i«.
cu/ar/on wlicl
and fo to cre-
cers; the more
ouriiworkjsor
the lowcfti as
^ that certain
tJ Stoae,
the etvtite
t
Elements of Architecture, ix
. And the Compound Order, or, as some call it, the ^oman, others more
generally, the Italian.
In which five Orders I will sirft confider their Communities, and then
their Properties.
Their Communities sas sar as I obferve) are principally Three : Firft,
They are all round, sor though some conceive ColumnaJtticurges, mentioned
by VitruYms, L. 3. Cap. 3. to have been a fcjuared Pillar, yet we must.pass
it over as irregular, never received among thefe Orders, no more than cer-
tain other licentious Inventions os wreathed, and vined, and sigured Co-
lumns, which our Author himsels condemneth, being in his whole Book
a proseffed Enemy to Fancies.
Secondly, They are all diminished or contracted insenfibly, more or less,
according to the Proportion of their Heights, from one third Part of the
whole Shast upwards, which (philander doth prescribe by his own precise
measuring os the ancient Remainders, as the most graceful Diminution.
And here I muft take leave to blame a Practice grown (I know not how)
in certain Places too samiliar, of making Pillars fwell in the middle, as if
they were fick of fome Tympany or Dropfy, without any authentick Pat-
tern or Rule, to my Knowledge, and unseemly to the very Judgement of
Sight. True it is, that mVitruYius, Lib. it. Cap. 2. we find these Words5 De
adjetlione, qu£ adjicitur in mediis Columnis 5 qu£ apud Grecos Evtoutk appellatur, in
extremo libro erit formatio ejus5 which Paffage leerneth to have given fpme
countenance to this Error. But of the Promife there made, as of diverfe
other elfewhere, our Matter hath failed us, either by flip of Memory, or in-
jury of Time, and fo we are left in the Dark. Always fure I am, that be-
sides the Authority of Example, which it wanteth, it is likewife contrary to
the original and natural Type inTrees, which at first was imitated in Pillars,
as VitruYms himfelf obferveth, Lib. 5. Cap. 1. For whoever faw any Cyprefs
or Pine (which are there alledged) fmall below and above ^ and tumerous in
the middle, unlefsit were fome difeafed Plant, as Nature (though otherwife
the comlieft Miftrefs) hath now and then her Deformities and Irregularities.
Thirdly, They have all their Underfettings or Pedeftals, in Height a third
part of the whole Column, comprehending the Bafe and Capital, and
their upper Adjuncts, asArchitrave, Frize, and Cornice, a sourth part os the
faid Pillar 5 which Rule, os fingular Ufe and Facility, I find fettled by Jacobs
Baroccio, and hold him a more credible Author, as a Man that moft intend-
ed this Piece, than any that vary srom him in those Dimenfions.
These are their most confiderable Communities and Agreements.
Their Properties or Distinctions will beft appear by fome reafonable De-
scription of them all, together with their Architraves, Frizes, and Cornices,
as they are ufually handled.
Firft, theresore the Tufcan is a plain, maffy, rural Pillar, resembling
some sturdy well-limbed Labourer, homely clad, in which kind os Com-
parisons VitruYms himfels seemeth to take Pleasure, Lib. 4. Cap. 1. The
Length thereos mall be six Diameters, os the groiTest of the Pillar below,
os all Proportions in truth the most natural 5 for our Author tells us, Lib. 3.
Cap. \. that the Foot of a Man is the fixth Part os his Body in ordinary Mea-
sure5 and Man himfels, according to the Saying os Protagoras (which Ari-
......% . d .......* ftotle
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