Vignola, or, The compleat architect shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the proportious [sic] that all members in a building have one unto another / set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola ; translated into English by Joseph Moxon.
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Vignola, or, The compleat architect shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the proportious [sic] that all members in a building have one unto another / set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola ; translated into English by Joseph Moxon.
Author
Vignola, 1507-1573.
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Lonon [i.e. London] :: Printed for Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop ...,
1673.
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Architecture -- Orders.
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"Vignola, or, The compleat architect shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the proportious [sic] that all members in a building have one unto another / set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola ; translated into English by Joseph Moxon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31035.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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descriptionPage 38
XII.
WHen you make the Jonick Order without
a Pedestal, you must divide its whole height
into 22 parts and an half, and one of those parts
shall be a Model; then divide each Model into
18 parts: The reason why each Model is divided
into more parts than the Tuscan, or Dorick Order,
is, because this being a more curious and sprite∣ly
Order, doth require more small and acute
divisions for the more exact setting down of the
Dimensions of every particular Member.
The length of the Column with Base and Capi∣tal,
must be 18 Models, the Architrave 1 and one
quarter, the Friese 1 and an half, the Cornice 1
and three quarters; which numbers and fractions
added together, make 22 and an half, as afore∣said.
And if you add the numbers and fractions of
the Architrave, Frise, and Cornice together, they
will make 4 Models and an half, which is one
quarter of the Column with Base and Capital.
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