| Title: | Architecture and related subjects – [1] First part |
| Original Title: | Architecture et parties qui en dépendent – [1] Première partie |
| Volume and Page: | Plates vol. 1 (1765) |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Ann-Marie Ashworth. Architecture in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Scolar Press, 1993. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Architecture and related subjects – [1] First part." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.361>. Trans. of "Architecture et parties qui en dépendent – [1] Première partie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1 (plates). Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Architecture and related subjects – [1] First part." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.361 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Architecture et parties qui en dépendent – [1] Première partie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1 (plates) (Paris, 1765). |
We begin these elements with the orders of Architecture, it being the section which pertains the most to the style of the art, and the most indispensable discipline for acquiring the means of judging the exterior beauty of buildings in general. Moreover, the knowledge will enable us subsequently to understand the essential relationship which the interior of a building should have with the exterior, and also the means of recording these two branches of the art with that of construction, these three branches constituting Architecture proper.
Plate I: Architecture, The five orders of architecture of the Greeks and Romans.
Plate II: Architecture, General dimension of the orders of architecture, with the details of the principal modules which subdivide them.
Plate III: Architecture, General method of tracing the mouldings used for all types of members of architecture. [The first sequence of examples of mouldings.]
Plate IV: Architecture, General method of tracing the mouldings used for all types of members of architecture. [The second sequence of examples of mouldings.]
Plate V: Architecture, Pedestals of the five orders, with a socle often substituted for the orders of architecture in the decoration of buildings.
Plate VI: Architecture, Base of the five orders, with the [addition of] one known as Attic.
Plate VII: Architecture, Capitals of the five orders, with the modern Ionic capital.
Plate VIII: Architecture, Entablatures of the five orders with an architraved cornice.
Plate IX: Architecture, Balustrades and Balusters relative to the five orders.
Plate X: Architecture, Doors relative to the five ordering principles of the orders of architecture.
Plate XI: Architecture, Casements Relative to the five ordering principles of the orders of architecture.
Plate XII: Architecture, Niches and pediments used in the decoration of buildings.
