Palladio, Andrea: The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture (Band4): Wherein the ancient temples that are in Rome are described and figured and some others that are in Italy and out of Italy (London, 1738)

FOURTH BOOK.

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ktio. The caies o\' the cofcs that are between the mogdilions arc ($uarej and they bUgfat 1<j
to be made, .is I have bhserved they are in all the ancient edifices.
Writers &r thatthis temple was burnt in the time of the emperor Commodusj but I
can't see how ih.it can be to, there not being the Wait in it wood. But it might easiky
happen that it has been ruined by earthquakes, or somc other such accident, and afi
. 1 (bme other time, when what related to archite&ure was not (b wdH Onderslood
as it was in the time os Vespasian. What makes me believe this, is becauie the sculptures are
not so well made, or worked with that diligence that one obierves to those which are in the
arch ofTiTUS, and of other edifices that were made in good times. The walla ol this tem-
ple were adorned with statues, and with pictures, and all the vaults were made With a compart-
ment os stucco, neither was there any part but what was highly adorned. Os this temple I
Is the first the plan isdesigned. Plat
In the second the upright os the outward part of the part within, os the sront, and osPlat
the inward part ot the Hank.

In the third are the particular members.
A, the base
B, the capital
C, architrave, frize and cornice _,
D, the compartment of'jlucco made in the -vaults.

Plate 3.

I of the columns that fu['p:rt tbt

CHAP. VII.

Os the temple os M.\rs the Avenger.

NEAR the tower of the Conti's the ruins are to be seen of the temple built sormerly
by Augustus to Mars the Avenger, to sulfil a vow lie mule, (when being together
with Marc Antony at Pharjdsia, against. Brutus and Cassius) to revenge the death os
Oesar, he engaged and overcame them.
By thole parts that remain, one comprehends that this was a mod adorned and mar-
vellous edifice ; and the sorum that was before it mud have made it inuJi ifeons admirable,
into which, one reads, those that returned into the ciej ( and triumphant, carried
the ensigns of the triumph and victory -, and that Augustus, in its moib beautiful part placed
two pictures, in which were reprelented the manner of giving battle, and triumphing; and
two other pictures done by the hand of Apelles, in one of which there were Eai qofe and Pol-
lux, the goddess of Victory, and Alexander the great; in the other a representation os
a battle, and an Alexander. There were two portico's, in which Augustus d<
the statues ot all thole who returned triumphant to Rome.
Of this sorum there are not any vestiges to be seen, unlcss thole wings of wall, which
are on the sides os the temple, mould perhaps be part os it j which is very likely, from the
many places sor statues that are therein.
The aspect os the temple is alato a torno, which we besore have called, srom V itruvius,
seripteroi. And becauie the breadth os the dill exceeds twenty foot, and there are columns
placed between the two anti, or pilasters of the anti-temple opposite to thui'e os the portico,
as has been besore said ought to be done in the like case, the portico is not continued
round the temple : and also in the wings os the walls jotfiexJ srom one side to the other, the
same order is not observed in the part without, although all the parts correspond within.
Hence one comprehends, that behind, and on one side, mere mufl H i\ t 1\ I h trie public llrect;
and that Augustus was willing to accommodate himself to the lite, not to incommode,
nor take away the neighbouring houlcs hum their owners.
The manner of this temple is the picnoitilos. The portico's are as large as the interco-
lumniations. In the part within, that IS, in the cell, there' is not the le.ui rsiarft it \
urn to be seen, neither is there any thing in the wall, whence it may positively be Odd
that there were either ornaments or tabernacles; however, as it is very likely that sunic there
2 were,