Identifier: fiveordersofarch00vign (find matches)
Title: The five orders of architecture
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Vignola, 1507-1573 Juglaris, Tommaso Locke, Warren S
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: (Boston, Press of Berwick & Smith)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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TUSCAN INTERCOLUMNIATION WITH ARCHAND PEDESTAL. In this modification of the Tuscan Order we first estab-lish the opening of the arch as before, — the height twicethe width, the measurements being 8; moduli in width and17^ moduli in height. The pilasters are 4 moduli wide, and the distance betweenthe centers of columns is 12; moduli, and the total height— pedestal, column, and entablature — 22^ moduli. The height of arch opening being fixed, we add one mod-ulus for the depth of the arch. This height is divided into 16 parts, and of these 12 aregiven to the column, with base and capital, and 4 to thepedestal. To this we add 3 parts for the entablature.The top of the cap of the pilaster is in a horizontal linewith the center of the arch. The pilaster cap is 1 modulushigh. The top of the arch is 1 modulus and 2 parts below theentablature. The cap is shown in double scale on Plate II. One-third of the column is built into the pilaster. Themouldings are taken from Plate II. as before.
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PLATE VII. THE DORIC PEDESTAL. ViGNOLA gives this Pedestal a height of ò\ moduli^ anddivided it into 3 parts, — Base, Plinth, and Cap. The baseis 10 parts high, and projects 4;- parts. The plinth has aheight of 4 moduli, and a width of 2 moduli and 10 parts.The cap is modulus high, and also projects ^ modulus. The Doric Column. The base is 1 modulus high and projects 5 parts. Vig-nola gives the column 20 flutings, which are described asfollows : The largest circumference of the column is divided into20 parts by points. Place one leg of a pair of compasseson one of these points, and with a radius equal to the chordbetween two adjacent points on the circumference, makean indefinite arc outside the circumference. Reverse the position of the legs of the compasses, andmake another arc, cutting the first. The point B, where the two arcs cross, is the center ofthe arc, forming one fluting. The flutings of the Doric Order meet, forming a sharpedge. The modulus of the Doric Order is divided

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