Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . es has been omitted in order to show more clearlythe moulding outline and section and to convey at the same time thefact that the Order alone may be employed with the minimum amountof ornamentation and yet obtain a very satisfactory result. In othercases, the moulding ornament has been suggested over only a smallportion of the drawing, for the same purpose of simplifying the archi-tectural effect as an aid to its readier comprehciision. The use ofornamentation, to the extreme degree manifested by the Romans, isevi
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . es has been omitted in order to show more clearlythe moulding outline and section and to convey at the same time thefact that the Order alone may be employed with the minimum amountof ornamentation and yet obtain a very satisfactory result. In othercases, the moulding ornament has been suggested over only a smallportion of the drawing, for the same purpose of simplifying the archi-tectural effect as an aid to its readier comprehciision. The use ofornamentation, to the extreme degree manifested by the Romans, isevidence of a luxuriance and a lack of refinement on the part of thebuilders and the nation at large. Useless ornament in any event isemployed only for the purpose of rendering upon the beholder aneffect oi greater costliness; and it is a mooted point whether ornament,as applied by the Romans in elaborate carving on plain surfaces as wellas on mouldings, obtains an effect commensurate with its cost. 861 uU CO < ROMF • AV OVAI^TDE • f E-XECVTION r— 1 ^-^^ .S ^3! •? m. UJ -;; »- ? < CO PJ Fiu. 110 STUDY OF THE ORDERS 237 ENTASIS OF THE ROMAN COLUMN The Romans seem to have adopted one general method of dimin-ishing or tapering their columns, evidently based on the Ionic andCorinthian shafts of the Greek Orders. In adapting to their own pur-poses the Greek entasis, they made no allowance for the fact that theircolumns were frequently used attached to a curtain wall, but seem tohave borrowed the Greek method outright, merely simplifying it fortheir own readier use. The general proportions of the bases and columns of the RomanOrder may be more carefully studied in Plate LVII, in which tlireewell-kno^Ti examples of column shafts are drawn out to an equalheight. The Doric shaft is that used in the Villa at Albani near Rome; theIonic column is taken from the Temple of Fortuna Virilis, about 100B. C; and the Corinthian is that used on the Pantheon at Rome, about120 to 124 A.
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