Chat. I. THE CORINTHIAN ORDER.

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Sect. VI,
THE rOllINTHIAN OKBEK..
2582. For the Corinthian order, we must seek examples rather in Rome than in any part
tf Greece. The portico at Athens, and the arch of Hadrian at Athens, do not furnish us
with specimens of art comparahle with the three columns in the Campo A'accino, belonging,
as is generally supposed, to the temple of Jupiter Stator. Those in the temple near INIylassa,
and the Incantata, as it is called, at Salonica, do not satisfy tlie artist, as compared with
the examples in the remains of the temple of IMars Ultor at Rome, the temple of Vesta
it Tivoli, and others, for which the reader mny refer to Desgodetz.
25SC). The reader is again here reminded that the module or semidiameter is to be
Fig. 888.
divided into eighteen parts. In///. 888. is a representation of the Corinthian order, whose
measures are given in the following table :

Jlembprs composing the Order.

Heights in
Parts of !i
Module.
Projections
from Axis in
Parts of a
Module.
Entablature.
Fillet of cornice
I
5.3
Cyma recta 5
53
Fillet
i
48
Cyma reversa
n 45i
Corona . . - 5
46
Cima reversa - - -
U
45i
A, cornice. Modillion . . - 6
44.-
36 parts. Fillet (remainder of modillion band)
i
28^
Ovolo . . - 4 28
Bead 1 2.5
Fillet
i
24^
Dentils 6
24
Fillet
- - - - k
20
, Cyma revcr^ia 3 I9|