. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. than a fourth part of the height of the column,including the base and capital. The whole height ofhis order, in our measures, is 25 modules and 6 parts. 2580. Scamozzi directs that the pedestal shall bewith its base and cornice two diameters and a half ofthe column. He uses the attic base, and, like Pal-ladio, gives an astragal above the upper torus. To theshaft of the column he assigns a height of little lessthan 8 diameters, and makes its diminuti
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. than a fourth part of the height of the column,including the base and capital. The whole height ofhis order, in our measures, is 25 modules and 6 parts. 2580. Scamozzi directs that the pedestal shall bewith its base and cornice two diameters and a half ofthe column. He uses the attic base, and, like Pal-ladio, gives an astragal above the upper torus. To theshaft of the column he assigns a height of little lessthan 8 diameters, and makes its diminution a sixthpart of the diameter. He adopts the angular capital,something like the example of that in the temple ofFortuna Virilis. The height of his architrave, frieze,and cornice is a little less tiian a fifth part of thelieight of the cohnun, with its liase and capital. Tiietotal height of his order, in our measures, is 26 mo-dules. 2581. The principal examples of the Grccan Ionicare in the temples of ]Minerva Polias, of Krecthcus,and the aqueduct of Hadrian, at Athens ; in tl>temple of Minerva Polias at Priciie ; of Kacclnis at ;j K 2. 8()8 PRACTICE OF AIICIIITECTURE. 1J[. Teos ; of Apollo DidymcTus at Miletus ; and of the small temple on the Ilyssus, nearAtlutis, whereof in Jiy. 887. the profile is given, and below, a table of the heights andprojections of the parts. It is to be observed, that in the Cirecian Ionic volute the filletof tht; spiral is continued along the face of the abacus, whilst in the Roman examphisit rises from behind the ovolo. Some of the Athenian examples exhibit a neck below theechinus, decorated with flowers and plants. The entablatures of the early Ionic areusually very simple. The architrave has often only one fascia, the frieze is generally plain,and the cornice is composed of few parts. In Book I. Chap. II. (153, et scq.) we havealready examined the parts of the Grecian Ionic, and thereto refer the reader. Table of the Parts of the Grecian
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