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)

8S FOURTH r.oo K.
were, I have made them os my own invention. The columns os the portico's are .,,
thian work. The capital) arc wrought in the manner of olive leaves. They have thVah
much larger than what isusually leen in others of the same order, regarding the b
of the whole capital. The firil leaves may he leen to hull a little'in ti
they come sorth, which gives them a good grace. These have very beautisul soAm
what we call cielinga, therefore I have made their profile and their aspefl in a plan. R,J 'j
this temple there were very high walls of pepcrino, which in the part without were os Re
tic work ; and in that within, they had many tabernacles, and places to p]acc st


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And that the whole might be persectly seen, I have made seven plates os it.
Plate 4. jN tjie first there is all the plan in a {mall sorm ; and all the elevation os as much as V
to be seen of this edifice, as well in the part without, as in that within.
Plate 5. Is the second there is the upright of the dank os the portico, and os the cell.
p!atc 7- In the third there is the upright of hals the front, with part of the walls that are on the
sides of the temple.
Plate 6. IN the fourth there is the upright of the inward part of the portico, and os the cell
with the ornaments which I have added to it.
Plate 9, IN the sifth are the ornaments of the portico.
G, the capital
H, the architrave\ srizc and cornice.
. I, the cielings oj the portico, that is, the sojfits.
Plato B. In the sixth, is designcd the soffit of the portico, and how it turns in the anti, or pila-
slers of the anti-temple.
M, tbejosjit of the architrave between the columns.
Plate 10. jN the seventh are die other members.
A, the base os the columns os the portico, which also continues in the wall round the
temple.
B, the caurida, jrom which begin the div'tswns oj the squares made sor an ornament in
the wall under the portico's.
C, the plan os the columns placed sor the ornament os the tabernacles in the celL
D, the base.
E, »j the capital.
Which ornaments in the inside have been added by me, taken from some antient srag-
ments sound near this temple.
F, is the cornice that is seen in the wings os the walls, that sorm a piazza on the
sides os the temple.

CHAP. VIII.
Of the temple of N e r v a T r a j a nus.
NEAR the said temple built by Augustus, the vestigia are to be feen os the temple
os Nerva Trajanus, theaspeel of which is the prostilos ; its manner is thick os
columns. The portico, together with the cell, is in length somewhat lei's than two squares.
The ssoor of this temple is raised from the ground with a basement that goes round the
whole sabric, and forms the sides of the slairs by which one ascends to the portico. In
the