The history and rudiments of architecture; embracing, IThe orders of architecture; IIArchitectural styles of various countries; IIIThe nature and principles of design in architecture; and, IVAn accurate and complete glossary of architectural terms .. . e principle of con-trast, besides giving a field for the sculptor. In Egypt,each of these groups of vertical lines consisted of five or sixhemi-cylinders ; but the Greeks confined it to the smallestnumber of repetitions that could exhibit equal-spacing, viz.,three,—and, instead of the soft rounded hemi-cylinders, theyadopted the graver form of o
The history and rudiments of architecture; embracing, IThe orders of architecture; IIArchitectural styles of various countries; IIIThe nature and principles of design in architecture; and, IVAn accurate and complete glossary of architectural terms .. . e principle of con-trast, besides giving a field for the sculptor. In Egypt,each of these groups of vertical lines consisted of five or sixhemi-cylinders ; but the Greeks confined it to the smallestnumber of repetitions that could exhibit equal-spacing, viz.,three,—and, instead of the soft rounded hemi-cylinders, theyadopted the graver form of octagonal prisms ; obliquity [butnot curvature] being admitted in these minor features, ratherto enhance the severe rectaugularity of principal parts, thanfrom a childish search after variety. The two planes of the frieze and the soffite being thuseach crossed by transverse lines, it became an object thatthese two systems of lines should make the most intenselyrectangular contrast with each other, not really—but visu-ally : for this purpose, the real angle between them was di-minished to less than a right angle, by making the soffiteslope forward, which has the effect intended in whateverway viewed, as will be seen by the following V=fS I =s^fc a 15^ B *n J a represents a Doric entablature, with the soffite sloping-over in the usual manner, in which it will be seen that a)l 188 HISTORY AND RUDIMENTS the angles a, d, c, &c, appear, in consequence of the perspec-tive, more nearly right angles, t. e., more abruptly contrastedthan the corresponding angles in Fig. b, which shows theappearance of a horizontal soffite. This effect will be equallytrue in an angular view, as seen in the two figures below.(a horizontal,—b inclined soffite.
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