Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . Fig. 10*. Pont du fiai-d, Nimes. grafted u])()ii its surface, the columns being each placed against thecenter of a pier. The colonnade shown in Fig. 99, drawn accouiingto the rule of Vignola, would be more pleasing if the plain surface inthe bay between the three-quarter-engaged columns—below the en-tablature and above the line of the necking—had been omitted, thusallowing the lower line of the entablature to be dropped to the heightof the horizontal line shown directly over the archivolt or backhandof the arch. U
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . Fig. 10*. Pont du fiai-d, Nimes. grafted u])()ii its surface, the columns being each placed against thecenter of a pier. The colonnade shown in Fig. 99, drawn accouiingto the rule of Vignola, would be more pleasing if the plain surface inthe bay between the three-quarter-engaged columns—below the en-tablature and above the line of the necking—had been omitted, thusallowing the lower line of the entablature to be dropped to the heightof the horizontal line shown directly over the archivolt or backhandof the arch. Use of Superimposed Orders. Aside from their assimilation of 178. Theater of Marcellus, Roman use of engaged and superimposed columns. STUDY OF THE ORDERS 175 the arch principle from the Etruscan builders, and their use of theGreek-developed Ordci- as a mere ornament applied on the face of anarch-sup] )orted Avail, the Romans further varied—in one importantparticular—their employment of the Classic Order. Where theGreeks, almost without exception, had used one column—even ofgigantic size where necessary—to carry from a low basement or stylo-bate to the entablature that acted as the crowning member of the build-ing, as well as of the Order used on its exterior facade; the Romansdid not hesitate to superimpose one Order upon another, making twoor more stories, one over the other, each cairying a complete Orderupon its face. The derivation of this idea is possibly traceable tosome of the Greek temples, in which a second Order was sometimesused on the interior to support the gabled roof covering the structure,and, incidentally, to a
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