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    The document discusses different ways that columns and shafts have been decorated throughout architectural history. It describes how fluting was a simple but elegant decoration used in antiquity. Byzantine, Romanesque, and Scandinavian styles often featured geometric patterns. Gothic styles typically left shafts smooth. The Renaissance began adding more ornate decorations like bands, festoons, and carvings. Later decadent styles constructed columns from stacked drums with alternating plain and decorated sections or spiral fluting. The document provides 5 examples of decorated shafts from different periods and locations.

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    202 The Base.

    The Ornamented Shaft


    8. Eomanesque, St. Remy, Reims, (Raguenet).
    9. Romanesque, Cistercian monastery, Maulbronn.
    10. Romanesque, Abbey "des Dames", Caen, (Raguenet).
    11. Gothic, church, Brou-Asn, (Raguenet).
    The Ornamented Shaft. (Plates 125
    126.)
    The simplest, most natural and perhaps the most beautiful de-
    coration of a Shaft is fluting, beyond which the Antique very seldom
    goes. Where it does: it clothes the stem in naturalistic fashion with
    plant-forms, (Plate 125.
    4).
    In the Byzantine, Romanesque, and Scandinavian styles: we often
    find the shaft covered with a geometrical network, and ornamented in
    a corresponding style, (Plate 125.
    2
    3).
    The Gothic style prefers
    to leave the slender shafts smooth.
    The Renascence is not satisfied with the simple flute especially
    on small architectural work like Altars, Monuments, &c. The craving
    to give the Column a decoration commensurate with that of the other
    parts of the architecture became irresistible. It is raised on a pedestal;
    the shaft is banded, being divided into parts by projecting Cinctxires,
    generally two, the lower at about one-third, the upper at about two-
    thirds of the height. On the lower part are suspended festoons,
    weapons, trophies, cartouches, &c., the upper part is channelled or
    decorated with Artificial foliage (Plate 125.
    1);
    finally, festoons of fruit
    or drajiery are suspended from the capital.
    Where the Columns are not large, especially in Furniture, the
    cylindrical shaft is replaced by the richer profiling of a more candelabrum-
    like form, (Plate 126. 5).
    Flat ornamentation is also used, as well
    as plastic decoration, by means of painting, incrustation, or inlaying,
    (Plate 125. 5).
    All these methods of application are more or less in agreement
    with the object and principle of construction of the Column, but the
    same cannot be said of the Renascence and the following styles of the
    Decadence, which build up their Columns of large and small drums,
    alternately ornamented and plain, or even give the Shaft a spiral
    twist and decorate it with spiral flutings.
    Plate 125. Tiie Decorated Shaft.
    1. Italian Renascence, Tomb in Sta. Maria del Popolo, Rome, by
    Sansovino,
    2. Romanesque.
    3. Shaft, church, Tournus, (Raguenet).
    4. Roman, marble.
    5. Column, with intarsia decoration, German Renascence,
    (Hirth).

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