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ARCHITECTURE
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Thus in the court of the temple4of Apollo and in the first
peristyle of the house of the Faun we see Ionic columns sup-
porting a Doric entablature; in the house of the Black Wall,
Doric columns with an Ionic entablature. The Doric architrave,
contrary to rule, ap-
pears divided into two
stripes, not only in the
colonnade of the Fo-
rum, where the stripes
represent a difference
of material, but also in
the house of the Faun,
where the architrave is
represented as com-
posed of single blocks
reaching from column
to column (p. 51). In
Fig. 239. — Four-faced Ionic capital. Portico of the
Forum Triangulare.
the Palaestra (p. 159), and in many private houses, the Doric
column was lengthened, in a way quite out of harmony with the
original conception, in order to make it conform to the prevail-
ing desire for height and slender proportions. The shaft no-
where appears with the pronounced entasis and strong diminu-
tion characteristic of the type, and the capital has lost the breadth
and graceful outline of the Greek Doric.
The Ionic columns in the cella of the temple of Jupiter (p.
65) are of the Greek type, with volutes on two sides ; elsewhere
Fig. 240. — Capital of pilaster.
Casa del duca d'Aumale.
we find only the so-called Roman Ionic,
with four volutes, a type that appears in
several well defined and pleasing exam-
ples. One of these, a capital from the
portico at the entrance of the Forum
Triangulare, is shown in Fig. 239. The
deep incisions of the egg-and-dart pat-
tern, which give the egg almost the
appearance of a little ball, is character-
istic; it is found only at Pompeii, and there not after the Tufa
Period. A still freer handling of the Ionic is seen in the capital
of a pilaster in the casa del duca d’Aumale (Fig. 240).
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Thus in the court of the temple4of Apollo and in the first
peristyle of the house of the Faun we see Ionic columns sup-
porting a Doric entablature; in the house of the Black Wall,
Doric columns with an Ionic entablature. The Doric architrave,
contrary to rule, ap-
pears divided into two
stripes, not only in the
colonnade of the Fo-
rum, where the stripes
represent a difference
of material, but also in
the house of the Faun,
where the architrave is
represented as com-
posed of single blocks
reaching from column
to column (p. 51). In
Fig. 239. — Four-faced Ionic capital. Portico of the
Forum Triangulare.
the Palaestra (p. 159), and in many private houses, the Doric
column was lengthened, in a way quite out of harmony with the
original conception, in order to make it conform to the prevail-
ing desire for height and slender proportions. The shaft no-
where appears with the pronounced entasis and strong diminu-
tion characteristic of the type, and the capital has lost the breadth
and graceful outline of the Greek Doric.
The Ionic columns in the cella of the temple of Jupiter (p.
65) are of the Greek type, with volutes on two sides ; elsewhere
Fig. 240. — Capital of pilaster.
Casa del duca d'Aumale.
we find only the so-called Roman Ionic,
with four volutes, a type that appears in
several well defined and pleasing exam-
ples. One of these, a capital from the
portico at the entrance of the Forum
Triangulare, is shown in Fig. 239. The
deep incisions of the egg-and-dart pat-
tern, which give the egg almost the
appearance of a little ball, is character-
istic; it is found only at Pompeii, and there not after the Tufa
Period. A still freer handling of the Ionic is seen in the capital
of a pilaster in the casa del duca d’Aumale (Fig. 240).