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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Philip II. of Spain to travel thither to put intoe:^ecution the design Vignola had made for the famousEscurial Palace, but on account of his advanced age and hisattachment to Eome, he resolved not to make the journey.After this Tignola settled a dispute between Pope GregoryXIII. and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, concerning theboundary between two States near Castello, satisfactorilyto both parties, with great judgment and discretion. On his return to Pome, he died at the age of sixty-six.His funeral was celebrated with great pomp, and was at-tended by the Academicians of Rome in a body. He wasburied in the Pantheon. Architecture owes an eternal debt of gratitude to thisfounder of the laws governing the Five Orders of Architec-ture. He was the first to reduce to rule and proportion thevarious styles of ancient architecture. He also inventedthe rule for tapering the column. His treatise on the FiveOrders has become a standard work, and he deserves thetitle of the Lawgiver of Architecture.
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IflE FIVE OEDEES OF AECHITECTUEE. PLATE I. CONCERNING THE MODULUS AND THE OR-DERS IN GENERAL. Architecture the word Order signifies a composition(in the same style) of a pedestal, a cohimn, and an entab-lature, together with their ornamentation. Order means a perfect and regular disposition of all theparts of a beautiful composition ; in a word, order is theopposite of confusion. Order is necessary in all things, because, without it, con-fusion exists, that is disagreeable to the eye and unintelli-gible to the mind. There are live Orders of Architecture, of which three areGreek, — tlie Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian ; and two Italian,— the Tuscan and the Composite. Now, in treating of the Orders, we must put first thedetails of which they are composed, to give a general ideaof that which will afterward be specified and described. An Order is composed of three parts : a Pedestal, a Col-umn, and an Entablature ; but the first is not essential. Each of these is also divided into three

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