The Architectural magazine . s com-pared with the portico alone, the division on each side of thecentre would possess an air of extent not contradictory to theidea of there being lengthened galleries in those situations. Withthis view, both the entablature, and the podium above it, are car-ried on unbroken as far as the pavilions just mentioned. Asthese latter are not shown in the elevation, it is necessary to describethe variations adopted for them irj this design. Ihese wouldconsist chiefly in substituting a distyle in antis (with columnsmerely insulated from the wall) for four pilasters, as
The Architectural magazine . s com-pared with the portico alone, the division on each side of thecentre would possess an air of extent not contradictory to theidea of there being lengthened galleries in those situations. Withthis view, both the entablature, and the podium above it, are car-ried on unbroken as far as the pavilions just mentioned. Asthese latter are not shown in the elevation, it is necessary to describethe variations adopted for them irj this design. Ihese wouldconsist chiefly in substituting a distyle in antis (with columnsmerely insulated from the wall) for four pilasters, as at present;and supplying the place of the turrets by an attic above theorder, having a semicircular niche with sculpture similar to thosein the plane feces of the tambour of the dome, but of less dia-meter. The introduction of colunms in these parts would producethat degree of richness which would bring them into keepingwith the centre, and increase the unity of the composition, by Critical View of the National Galleri/. 25. D. H. HiLL LIERARYNorth Carolina State Co!leg9 26 Critical View of the National Gallery. repeatinfT the same combination of columns and antae as is ob-servable a(ljoiiiin<T tlie portico itself. The other alteration wouldlikewise, 1 conceive, be found an improvement; for, not toobject that the turrets are applied without much meaning ormotive, they tend to make these divisions of the facade appear ofnarrower j^roportions than they otherwise would. I cannot helpremarkintr, therefore, that it is singular Mr. Wilkins should havetaunted Mr. Barry as he has done respecting the tower in hisdesigns for the Houses of Parliament, when he himself has notscrupled to attach to his building what, if not positive excre-scences in the design, are most certainly quite superfluous to thebuilding itself. The two an-iere-corps, or divisions receding back from thegeneral line of front, at the extremities, would have only threewindows, instead of four (as will in the sequel
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