Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . spacing of columns is of much greaterinterest to the architect of to-day than the custom of the Greeks, in thatthe Romans were not held down by the considerations that restrictedthe Greeks in the use of available lengths of stone which they couldquarry or handle for their supporting lintels. Yet the Romans, it mustalso be remembered, generally used Orders of tremendous size, andemployed them on buildings quite different in their whole composition and style from those on whichwe now employ the column; so,as a gener
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . spacing of columns is of much greaterinterest to the architect of to-day than the custom of the Greeks, in thatthe Romans were not held down by the considerations that restrictedthe Greeks in the use of available lengths of stone which they couldquarry or handle for their supporting lintels. Yet the Romans, it mustalso be remembered, generally used Orders of tremendous size, andemployed them on buildings quite different in their whole composition and style from those on whichwe now employ the column; so,as a general rule, it may be saidthat we should generally spaceour columns farther apart thanw^as even the Roman custom. In all Doric work, the col-lunn must always occur directlyunder a triglyph; but, instead ofthe two- or three-triglyph spacingof the Greeks, we find that theRomans frequently spaced theircolumns with three triglyphs andfour metope spaces occurring be-tween the triglyphs that come onthe center lines of the columnshafts, as in the Theater ofMarcellus at Rome; and while. ? TZATZZ ^M^RCIEMS - ? PoYladio lOM ? Vlgnola
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