The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . hree classes ofniches into twelve parts, giving twenty-eight of thesedivisions in height to the first, thirty to the second,and thirty-one to the third. This determination ofthe proportions of niches, like those of the orders andthe other parts of an ordonnance, are only a speciesof medium terms, established to serve as approximatemeasures to the combinations of the artist. For ex-amples of their employment, see the different plates ofplans, elevatio
The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . hree classes ofniches into twelve parts, giving twenty-eight of thesedivisions in height to the first, thirty to the second,and thirty-one to the third. This determination ofthe proportions of niches, like those of the orders andthe other parts of an ordonnance, are only a speciesof medium terms, established to serve as approximatemeasures to the combinations of the artist. For ex-amples of their employment, see the different plates ofplans, elevations, and sections, which follow. OF CROWNING ENTABLATURES. The expression of character, suitable to each edi-fice, is greatly aided by tlie entablature. This ex-pression may be given in two ways ; namely, by thedetails of the modinature, and by the choice of theornaments. The details of the modinature are whatare termed the profiles; and by the combination ofthese profiles, their number, greater or less projection,strength or lightness, a solemn or gay, light or strong, *simple or composed character, may be produced. It ITICHE M? %:-\?^ .i!-V-ml. 7«>U« 7S>«;£ /V l,aim*m .^tlMfcW J>» ^ ARCHITECTURAL DIRECTOR. 221 is from these details of the ordonnance that the con-noisseur, in part, forms his judgment of the ability ofthe architect. No part of architecture is capable ofreceiving such variety in the application of union with the profiles, and the due proportion ofrichness and repose that ought to be observed accord-ing to the nature of each edifice, is but rarely to bemet with. The principal mansions of Italy are almostall crowned with sumptuous and magnificent enta-blatures; yet amongst this great number, two onlyhave become classic; namely, that of Strozzi palace,at Florence, and that of Farnese palace, at Rome.(^See pi. 39.) The entablature, pi. 38, given byVignola, the proportion of which is the eleventh partof the whole height of the e
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