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THE DORIC ORDER. 861
Members composing the Order.
Heights in
Piirts of a
Module.
Projections in
Parts of a
Module frnir
Axis of Col'r.i.u.
T>istel
2 Ill
C, Arc!iitr;.ve, Capital of guttse
- -
i
11
10 parts. Giitt^j
Fascia
COLUJIN.
- - 10
11
10
Listel
. .
i
\5\
Cyma reversa -
Band -
- - 1
14
D, Capital,
12 parts.
Ecliinus or quarter round
. .
%
1.",?
Three annulets
Neck of capital
- -
4
Ill
10
fOvolo
. .^ 1 12
Astragal ! Fillet
. -
2 ^U
(^
Conge
- -
H
10
SnAl'l OF THE Column, 14 modules.
K, I'ase,
1-2 parts.
A])ophyge or conge
Fillet
-
Astragal
Torus
-
-
2

4
12
14
143
17
Plinth
- - 6 17
Pedestal.
Listel
. .
\
23
F, Cornice,
6 parts.
Ecl)inus
Fillet
-
Corona
;
-
1
\
2i
223
21i
21
. Cyma reversa -
- -
U
18^
Die (3F THE Pedestal, 4 modules.
Conge
. . 1 17
Fillet
- - .
1
2
18
G, Base, Astragal
. - 1
183
10 parts. Inverted cyma
. .
2 19
Second plinth
. .
2|
21
First plinth
- -
4
211
2566. Vitruvius, with more clearness than in the others, describes the Doric order
(book iv. chap. iii. ). lu order to set out its proportions, he tells us, though not giving a
direct rule, that its pedestal is composed of three parts, the cymatium or cornice, the die,
and the base ;
and that the base and cimalium are composed of many mouldings, whose
individual proportions, however, he does not give. He assigns no particular base to the
Doric order; but, nevertheless, places under half a diameter in height the attic base, whose
members are the plinth, small fillet, scoti i, and the upper ti/rus with its superior and inferiol
fillets, together with the apophyge of the cohinm. He gives to the projection of the base
a fifth part of the diameter ot the column. The height of the shaft he makes of 6 diameters,
and its diminution a sixth part of the diameter. The capital's height he makes equal to
lialf a diameter, and divides it into three parts, one for the abacus and its cymatium.
another for the eciiiniis and its fillets, tlie third for the hy potrachelium. lo the architrave he
assigns the height of one half diameter of the column, and to the frieze 50 parts of the module
^sjinidiameter divided into 30 parts), including the fascia, forming the capital of the tri-
glyphs. His cornice consists of 30 parts ot the module, and its projection 40. The whole
height which he gives to the order is, in the measure here adopted, i 7 modules and 20 parts.
'j:.i67.
Palladio makes the Doric pedestal rather less than
2.i
diameters of the colmnn,
dividing it into three parts, the base, die, and cymatium. To the die he assigns nearly a
diameter and one third of the column. To the cymatium a little more than one third of
the diameter. He uses the attic base to the order, but, for the sake of carrying ott' the
water, turns the jillnth into an inverted eavetto (guncio), ending in the projection of the
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