. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. portions thatwould he given to it if an order intervened. 2725. If we consider the height of the crowning cornice of a building in this way, andas the portion of an entablature whose height is, as in the case of an order, one fifth of thatof the building, we should immediately obtain a good proportion by dividing the wholeheight into 25 parts and giving two of them to the height of the cornice. For the entablature being one fifth of the whole ,, — ^
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. portions thatwould he given to it if an order intervened. 2725. If we consider the height of the crowning cornice of a building in this way, andas the portion of an entablature whose height is, as in the case of an order, one fifth of thatof the building, we should immediately obtain a good proportion by dividing the wholeheight into 25 parts and giving two of them to the height of the cornice. For the entablature being one fifth of the whole ,, — ^^. height, and its general division being into | ^^gv^^^^ 10 parts, four whereof are given to the ^ -^ ^^~j cornice, we have for its height the-1*5 of i = 3g P^^^I^^^V ^Ij ^F^^^^?^^ IS^ ^= ^?5, or the twelfth and a half part of the ^SS5total height of the building = there are circumstances, such aswhen the piers are large, and in othercases when the parts are not very full intheir profiles, which may justify a de-parture from the strict application of thisrule ; but it will be seen that in thefollowing ten well-known examples the. Firf. 347. practice has not nuich differed from the ^-r _ZZ17: theory, nearly the greatest deviation beiii in the celebrated cornice of the Farnese palace, which is here placed (Jig. 947.) as an extraordinary work of art in connection with the building it crowns, ilie ex- liil!£j;yil|lljl||| amples alluded to are as follow, and we begin with tiiose of earlier date, the diminution in heigiit being almost a clironological table of their election, with the exception of those by Palladio : — In the Spannocchi palace, at Siena, the cornice is ^^ of the whole height of building, or 33^= the Picolomini palace, at Siena, tlie cornice is -jj^ of the whole height of building, or |^ = the Pojana palace, built by Palladio, at Pojana, in the Vicentine territory, the cornice is -,2^ of the whole height of building, or -j^ =
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