. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e examples it appears that the mean height of the cornices under considerationis something more than one fifteenth of the height of the building, and experience showsthat, except under particular circumstances, much morethan that is too great, and much less too little, to satisfyan educated eye. The grace beyond the reach of artis, if we may use an Ilibernicism, in the ])ower of few,but the l)ounds have been passed with success, as istestified in th
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e examples it appears that the mean height of the cornices under considerationis something more than one fifteenth of the height of the building, and experience showsthat, except under particular circumstances, much morethan that is too great, and much less too little, to satisfyan educated eye. The grace beyond the reach of artis, if we may use an Ilibernicism, in the ])ower of few,but the l)ounds have been passed with success, as istestified in the Farnese palace. It may be objected tothe system that we have generally adi)])ted in this work,that we are too mucli reducing the art to rules. Butthis is a practice of wliich the painter is not ashamedin the proportions of the human figure, and we mustremind our reader and the student that nil rules are morefor the purpose of restraining excess than bounding theflights of genius. 2726. Fit;. 948. is an entablature by Vignola, whichpossesses great beauty, and has been often imitated invarious ways for crowning a building; this must be con-. PRACTICE OF ARCIIITECTUllE. Book III, sidcred more in relation to a building than a mere cornice, and requires rustic quoins, ifpossible, at the angles when used. Chambers, speaking of this example, says, that whenit is used to finish a plain building, the whole height is found by dividing the height ofthe whole front into eleven parts, one of which must be given to the entablature, and theremaining ten to the rest of the front. We suspect that the smallness which is assignedby this author to its height has been induced by some error, and that a better rule wouldbe induced by assigning to the cornice its proper height, according to the laws aboveliinted at, and proportioning the rest of the entablature from the cornice thus obtained. :£ (? r:A\ 1. 1 : HJ ; i I 1 \z __ _ 1
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