Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Hrsg.]: 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)

I oo A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture

C H A P. HI
Serlio and Vignola upon the T tr s c: a u Order.
WE have feen in the precedent Chapter the Tuscan Order of our Modern
Architects in its moft advantagious Luftre 3 but methinks it is ex*
tremely decayed here, especially in the (Prosile os Serlio, where the Whole is
indeed too plain and particular, being the only Person who has allowed to
every Member of the Order in general, Sase, Capital^ Architrave, Freeze, and
Cornice, like an Altitude 5 this Equality being here but a salse kind of 5Vo-
yortion, and wholly repugnant to what Architecture has borrowed srom the Op-
ticks.
Vignola has in this resped proceeded more rationally, adding to each Mem-
ber what it might diminissi of its Magnitude by the Distance srom the Eye5
and therefore he has made the Cornice somewhat higher than the Freeze or
Architrave*
Serlio allows his Column but six Diameters 5 though VitruYiiis (whom he always
strives to follow) gives it seven in his Chapter^ where he treats of building Jem-
sles after the Tufcan Manner^ which is the Seventh os his Fourth Book.
Vignola, &s to what imports the Column, consorms himsels to VitruYtus-, but
sor the Mouldings os the Capital and Cornice, is governed wholly by his par-
ticular Fancy*
The Entablature both in the one and the other os these two (profiles, consists
os a quarter os the Column,


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