Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . imes have prevented the study, by thebuilders, of examples in another country—the proportions of theDoric Order show a continuous progress toward the perfection to whichit finally attained in the Golden or Periclean Age, the fifth centurybefore Christ. Theory of Derivation of Doric Order from Wooden details of the Doric Order, and especially of the entablature,are supposed to have been borrowed from the timber framing of the 53 100 STUDY OF THE ORDERS smaller and earlier buildings of the Greeks, a
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . imes have prevented the study, by thebuilders, of examples in another country—the proportions of theDoric Order show a continuous progress toward the perfection to whichit finally attained in the Golden or Periclean Age, the fifth centurybefore Christ. Theory of Derivation of Doric Order from Wooden details of the Doric Order, and especially of the entablature,are supposed to have been borrowed from the timber framing of the 53 100 STUDY OF THE ORDERS smaller and earlier buildings of the Greeks, and therefore to be a copy,in stone, of the forms and parts of a wooden building. It was the theory of Vitruvius, the principal ancient Aviiter uponarchitecture, that the gradual substitution of stone for wood as abuildiiag material would naturally account for certain elements inwhich wood construction in the Doric Order seems to be imitated instone. He says that stone columns took the place of wooden posts,and the fluting of these columns corresponded to the chamfers of the. Wood Coustriictiou. posts. The stylobate, plinth, and base, he derives from d, sill or beamon which the posts rested. The capital is merely a plate or block,intended to shorten the span of the joists resting upon the posts, and togive the joists a broader bearing upon the points of their support. Thetriglyphs correspond to the ends of the ceiling beams, and the voidspaces between these beams are the metoj^es, which were at first leftopen for light and ventilation, and whicli were filled in with decoratedslabs only at a later period. The rafters of the roof projecting beyond 54 STUDY OF THE ORDERS 101 the frame of the building gave the suggestion for a cornice, and themutules of the corona are the ends of these rafters. The guttse or drops have the shape of pins used in the framing oftimber, while the slope of the roof itself gives the outline of the pedi-ment. These suppositions are not beyond criticism a
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