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Account of Architects
ScaU,
they are raised above Ground, as well as solid 5 especially, where
there is Occasion to contrive them as flat as possible 5 such as arc to
be seen in many Bridges, especially at Pi/a over the Amo, so flat as
the Curvature is hardly discernable 5 and though it consists of three
Arches, yet they are very large 5 and there are many at Venice, but
not near of that Length : That of the famous <%ialto over the Grand-
Canale, is more exalted, being in the <Bafe near 200 Foot, the Chord
much lessthan half the Diameter, Arches being ever strongest, as they
approach the half Circle : The Mafonry at the Front of these being
cut by a peculiar Slope of the Stone, is called pennanted, 'till it come
to join with the
Mensuia. Menfula, which, quaji seems to be locked to the Pennants in
Guizeof a Wedge, and therefore by our Artists named the l^ey-fione:
We have mewed their Use where two Arches intersecl:, which is the
camerati strongest Manner of Cameration. Under the Title of Arch-Wor\,
may not improperly come in those ScaU Cochlides, fpiral, annular,
oval, and of whatsoever Shape, Pensile, and as it were, hanging
with oil without Column, receiving Sight from above 5 all of them
requiring the skilful Geometrician) as well as a Majter-Mafon 5 Stairs
in general being one of the mod useful and absolutely necessary
Parts of an House 5 and therefore to be contrived with good Judg-
ment, whether os Stone or Timber ; and so as with Eaje and Cheer-
fulnefs one may be led to all the Upper Rooms. With Eafe I mean,
that the Flights be not too long, before one arrives to the %epofes
and Landings, without criticizing concerning the Number of Steps,
which the Ancients made to be odd, provided they exceed not five
Inches in Height, or be less than fifteen in Breadth, one Foot being
scarcely tolerable: And albeit the Length cannot so positively be
determined, but mould answer the Quality and Capacity of the
Building, it ought not to be sshorter than five and a half, or fix Foot 5
that two Persons may commodiously ascend together 5 I speak not
of those, ScaU occult*, Back-Stairs, which sometimes require much
Contraction, and are more obnoxious to Winding-Steps : But a
noble and ample House may extend even from eight to twelve Foot
in Length. And here I think not amiss to note, That the Ancients
very seldom made use of arched Doors or Windows, unless at the En-
trance of Cajiles, Cities, and Triumphal Inter columnations, for the more
commodious Ingress of Horfe-Men armed with Spears, and Enfigns,
tsrc. This Barbarity therefore we may look upon as purely Gothic,
who considering nothing with (steafon, have introduced it into private
Houses, and been imitated but by too many of our late Architects
also, to the no small Diminution of the rest, which is better con-
ducted. By Inter columnations I do likewise comprehend all terrafed
and cloifiered Buildings, Porticos, Galleries, Atria s, &c. as before, con-
tiguous to, or {landing out srom the Body of Edisices 3 in which
Cases they are becomingly proper: And this does naturally lead me
to our Pillars again, and to consider the Spaces between them.
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Account of Architects
ScaU,
they are raised above Ground, as well as solid 5 especially, where
there is Occasion to contrive them as flat as possible 5 such as arc to
be seen in many Bridges, especially at Pi/a over the Amo, so flat as
the Curvature is hardly discernable 5 and though it consists of three
Arches, yet they are very large 5 and there are many at Venice, but
not near of that Length : That of the famous <%ialto over the Grand-
Canale, is more exalted, being in the <Bafe near 200 Foot, the Chord
much lessthan half the Diameter, Arches being ever strongest, as they
approach the half Circle : The Mafonry at the Front of these being
cut by a peculiar Slope of the Stone, is called pennanted, 'till it come
to join with the
Mensuia. Menfula, which, quaji seems to be locked to the Pennants in
Guizeof a Wedge, and therefore by our Artists named the l^ey-fione:
We have mewed their Use where two Arches intersecl:, which is the
camerati strongest Manner of Cameration. Under the Title of Arch-Wor\,
may not improperly come in those ScaU Cochlides, fpiral, annular,
oval, and of whatsoever Shape, Pensile, and as it were, hanging
with oil without Column, receiving Sight from above 5 all of them
requiring the skilful Geometrician) as well as a Majter-Mafon 5 Stairs
in general being one of the mod useful and absolutely necessary
Parts of an House 5 and therefore to be contrived with good Judg-
ment, whether os Stone or Timber ; and so as with Eaje and Cheer-
fulnefs one may be led to all the Upper Rooms. With Eafe I mean,
that the Flights be not too long, before one arrives to the %epofes
and Landings, without criticizing concerning the Number of Steps,
which the Ancients made to be odd, provided they exceed not five
Inches in Height, or be less than fifteen in Breadth, one Foot being
scarcely tolerable: And albeit the Length cannot so positively be
determined, but mould answer the Quality and Capacity of the
Building, it ought not to be sshorter than five and a half, or fix Foot 5
that two Persons may commodiously ascend together 5 I speak not
of those, ScaU occult*, Back-Stairs, which sometimes require much
Contraction, and are more obnoxious to Winding-Steps : But a
noble and ample House may extend even from eight to twelve Foot
in Length. And here I think not amiss to note, That the Ancients
very seldom made use of arched Doors or Windows, unless at the En-
trance of Cajiles, Cities, and Triumphal Inter columnations, for the more
commodious Ingress of Horfe-Men armed with Spears, and Enfigns,
tsrc. This Barbarity therefore we may look upon as purely Gothic,
who considering nothing with (steafon, have introduced it into private
Houses, and been imitated but by too many of our late Architects
also, to the no small Diminution of the rest, which is better con-
ducted. By Inter columnations I do likewise comprehend all terrafed
and cloifiered Buildings, Porticos, Galleries, Atria s, &c. as before, con-
tiguous to, or {landing out srom the Body of Edisices 3 in which
Cases they are becomingly proper: And this does naturally lead me
to our Pillars again, and to consider the Spaces between them.
Inter*
out
#l 1
[this*
treat 0
the oo<
s belor
sor the whole
am m
and st* o!
TheS#
becauic seldom
lingoilMe!
tkipokCm
lie and Majnific
as yet remain c
Wfd, But w
exceed s ipo &
eHls tie h
its Beauty and ot
^4 fijljlo,
notnow/otcq
berand MultitU(
"gall tk
Sit