. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. roved by adding an architrave cornice or an entablatureto the column, by omitting the rustics and by surrounding the arches with archivolts. Itis not to be inferred, because this example is given, that it is inserted as one to be followedexcept under very peculiar circumstances. Where an arrangement of this kind is adopted,care must be used to secure the angles by artificial means. 2637. Fig. 909. is given from the cortile of the castle at Caprarola
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. roved by adding an architrave cornice or an entablatureto the column, by omitting the rustics and by surrounding the arches with archivolts. Itis not to be inferred, because this example is given, that it is inserted as one to be followedexcept under very peculiar circumstances. Where an arrangement of this kind is adopted,care must be used to secure the angles by artificial means. 2637. Fig. 909. is given from the cortile of the castle at Caprarola by Vignola, a struc-ture which in the First Book of this work we have (346. ) already mentioned. Tlie height ofthe arches is somewhat more than twice their width. From the under side of the arch tothe top of the cornice is one third of the height of the arch, the breadth of whose pier isequal to that of the arch, and the aperture in the pier about one tliird of its breadtli. 2638. A composition of Bramante, executed in the garden of the Belvedere at Rome, isgiven at ^^. 910. The arch in height is somewhat more than twice its width, and the.
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