Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Editor]: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another ; the three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise ; and the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter (London, 1733)

7 o A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture
CHAP. XXVII.
A Corinthian Prosile taken from the Portico of{
the Rotunda at Rome.
H E whole Height of the Order, from the (Safe to the Cornice, amounts to
three and twenty Modules and two thirds $ whereof the Column with
it^Bafe and Chapter, contains nineteen, and the Entablature four and two thirds:
so as the whole Entablature, which is the Architrave, Freeze and Cornice, makes
a quarter of the Column. And albeit it may seem reasonable to. sollow the
Opinion of some Authors, who allow it but a fifth $ yet we find, that the
mod famous of the Antique, for Example, this Frontispiece of Nero, and the
three Pillars of Campo Vaccina at <$ome, which in the Judgment of ArchiteEls pass
for the noblest Relicjues of Antiquity, challenge an entire fourth Part for their
Entablature, upon this Account, I conceive it safelt to ' preser ve ourselves"
wkhin the Limits of our Example from the (Rotunda, lest endeavouring to
render this Order more spruce and finical, it become in fine but the more
contemptible.
Behold here its Composition in general, and the Proportions of the prin-
cipal Members, of which the Module is ever the Semidiameter of the Column,
divided into thirty Minutes.
The entire Height of the Order contains twenty-three Modules and two
thirds, which amount in Minutes to — ■- -— —— — — y \ o
The Safe has one Module precisely---:-------50
The Shaft of the Column sifteen Modules and two thirds, wanting two
Minutes-— ■—■ — *-■---- —' ---—-- 4^8
The Chapter contains two Modules and a third only--1— 70
The Entablature, viz. Architrave3 Freeze and Cornice,iom Modules and two thirds,
two Minutes over----«—---— ■--—-—- — \d*z
Concerning thesmall Divisions of each Part, it would be too tedious, and
indeed superssuous, to specify them here, since the Design demonstrates them
more intelligibly.
I have towards the End of the Second Chapter of this 'Book-, taught how
one sttould make the Calculation of an Order for the examining the Propor-
tion which the Entablature bears with its Column, and thereby to see if it hold
regular : It would be no Loss of Time to the Reader, did he make Proof of
his Skill upon every (profile. But I advise him before hand, that there are
three different Proportions, all of them beautiful, and which may very
well agree with this Corinthian Order: That is to say, the Fourth, as in this and
the following (prosile: The two Ninths, which are the mean Proportions os
the Fourth to the Fifth, as in the third (profile taken from the Baths of Diode fan :
And lastly, the Fifth, as in the Profiles of Palladio and Scamozgi, not so sre-
quently encountered among the Ancients.

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