ARCHITECTURE. 



fronting each side of the abacus, and the 

 stalk of each leaf springing between each 

 two lower leaves. The height of the aba- 

 cus is one seventh, the upper and lower 

 tii rs of leaves each two sevenths, and 

 the branches and volutes, \\hichspring 

 from the stalks between every two leaves 

 in the upper row, the remaining two se- 

 venths of the diameter. The breadth of 

 the capital at the bottom is one, and each 

 diagonal of the abacus two, diam 

 the column. Vitnivins makes no men- 

 tion of obtundingthe corners of the aba- 

 cus, as is general!) practiced by the an- 

 cients as well as tlie moderns ; we are, 

 then-fore, led to suppose, that each pair 

 of the four faces of the abacus wi 

 tinned till they met in an acute angle, at 

 each corner, as in the temple of \ 

 Home, and the Stoa or portico at Athens; 

 the division of the capital is the same :is 

 is frequently used by the moderns, but 

 i lie entire height thereof is gcnerallv 

 made one sixth more than the diain 

 the column, and that of the entire column 

 en diameters. The best undent 

 MU-II-, of the Corinthian order are to be 

 collected from the Stuu, the arch of Adri 

 in, and that most exquisite and singular 

 -pecimen, the monument of Lysic 

 Athens ; also in the I'antheon of Agrippa, 

 ami in the three columns of the Campo 

 \accino at Koine ; these two, and parti- 

 cularly the last, are allowed to be the 

 most complete existing examples that are 

 'o be foundinall the remains of antiquity. 

 The taste of the foliage of the Attic Co- 

 rinthian differs considerably from that of 

 the Komaii: the small divisions of the 

 LUV mure pointed, approaching 

 nearer to the acanthus ban those at Koine, 

 which are for the most pail olive; how- 

 ever, in other respects, the capitals them- 

 -- ; milar, except in the 

 monument of l.ysicratcs. 



The Corinthian capital exhibits the ut- 

 most degree ofclcgaiicc, beauty, ri' 

 and delicacy, that hu> ever been attained 

 in architectural composition, thoilgh ma- 

 ny attempts have been made to exceed it. 

 The columns of this order do not appear 

 10 have had any appropriate entablature 

 in the time of Vitruvius; for, in 11. I\ 

 Hiap. i. lie informs us, that both Doric 

 and Ionic entablatures u ere supported by 

 Corinthian columns, and that it was the 

 columns alone which constituted this or- 

 der, and not the entablatures; ho. 

 in the remains of (Grecian and Koman an- 

 tiquity we h'nd, almost constantly, Corin- 

 iliian columns supporting un entablature 

 ,yith a peculiar species of cornice : a <-om- 



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position which seems to be borrowed from 



those of the Doric and Ionic orders. In 



this entablature the figure of the mutules 



supporting the o 



form of a console, and i 



and the denticuh.' 



cymatium, and also that oft!. 



introduced below the c 



this application are called mr,ilil!ion*. 



This disposition is inverting the or 



the original hut, and a! ription 



given In \itru\ius. The only example, 



.ientilsareplaccdabove moil, 

 is in the second < 



;C; ill- 



;e entablature itself would, 

 on many o< .ippropriate 



the Corin'liKin. \\heii the co- 

 lumusarefl - 'if the flutes 



and fill 

 order. 



If the entablature fie enriched, the shaft 

 should be nY > composed of va- 



ble ; for a diversity of co- 

 lours COIlfllV 



if decorated, the ornament i' 



Hi t-i :i m::c!i .cgTCe. 



\Vlu-n the columns are within reach, so 

 as to be liable to be damaged. 

 part of the HuU a, <ne third of 



their I .netimes filled with ca- 



tbat of the interior order of the 

 1'antlu-on, with a view to strengthen the 



In rich work of some modem buildings, 



li s an-compoM d of reeds, husks, 

 spiral twisted rib: 

 ous other on. nit these n 



should onl\ ' din the decora- 



tions of the interior, and even tin. : 

 sparingly, as t!ic .!<! be much 



better emp!o\c,l in gi\ ing majt -.' 



,r to other nart>. of the fab: 



i, ice \\hich lias obtain 



hers, it will be neces>u; 

 to increase the whole h ^ en- 



tablature more than two dia> 



', undat the 



same time to preserve a jus: 

 between tlu 



making tin- the entabla- 



ture two-niir 



if the Ionic comic inployed, or 



the dentils and t : 



the column will be sulh' 



,' too many mem- 

 bers to the cornice will appear, as 

 f columns arc incapable of 



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