This document discusses different architectural orders and provides measurements for the Doric order according to Palladio, Serlio, and Scamozzi. It notes the height of columns, bases, capitals, entablatures, pedestals, and intercolumniations. The total heights given by each architect are also provided in modules and parts.
This document discusses different architectural orders and provides measurements for the Doric order according to Palladio, Serlio, and Scamozzi. It notes the height of columns, bases, capitals, entablatures, pedestals, and intercolumniations. The total heights given by each architect are also provided in modules and parts.
This document discusses different architectural orders and provides measurements for the Doric order according to Palladio, Serlio, and Scamozzi. It notes the height of columns, bases, capitals, entablatures, pedestals, and intercolumniations. The total heights given by each architect are also provided in modules and parts.
on ancient remains. The whole heiijht, accoviling to tlie measuring unit winch we have adopted from Vignol.i, is ]6 modiik-s and 3 parts. 2557. Palladio makes the height of his Tuscan column 6 diameters, and diminishes the shaft one fourth of a diameter. The lieight of the base and capital are each half a diameter. Jle provides no pedestal, but, instead tliereof, places the base of the column on a zoccolo, c.r lofty plinth, whose lieight is equal to the diameter of the column. He leaves the inter- columniation unsettled, merely luntiug tliat as tlie architraves are of timber, they, the iiitercoluinniations may be wide. The whole height by him assigned to the order is 9 diameters and three quarters of the column. The whole height according to our scale is 1 9 modules and 6" parts. 2558. Serlio makes the column of the order 5 diameters exclusive of base and capital, each of which are half a diameter in height, and his diminution is one (juarter of the diameter. He gives half a diameter to the height of the architrave, and an etjual height to the frieze and to the cornice. His pedestal is with a plinth and base, a die, and cymatium, the whole being a third of the height of the cukimn. He gives no rules for the intercoluniniations, though in book 4. he inserts a diagram wherein iiitercolunms ajipear, merely saying that they are equal to 3 diameters. The total height according to our measure is 19 modules and 3 parts. 2559. Scaiiiozzi makes the shaft of his column 6 diameters, and diminishes it one fourth part of its diameter. The heights of the base and cajiital are each half a diameter. To the entablature he assigns for height one fourth of the height of the column, including its base and capital, less half its diameter. He jilaces a soit of triglyjih in the frieze, which arises from a niisconception of the text of \'itruvius. The height of his pedestal is a fourth part of that of the column, with base and capital, less half a diameter. The whole height in our nieasiae is 21 modules and 9 parts. Sect. IV. THE DORIC ORDER. 2560. The Doric order of the moderns is of two sorts : mutular and denticular, the former is represented in Jig. 879. A is a plan of the sofite of the corona ; B, a plan of the -A capital ; and C, a plan of the base. In the frieze the channelled projections arc called trii/li/phs, and the spaces between them mctojju:, which should ui breadth be equal to ihcif