. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. he arch springs is 10| moduleshigh; from axis to axis of the small columns in the lowerarcade is 9 modules. The height of the plinth is U module,of the principal columns, including bases and plinths, 165modules, and of their entablature 4 modules. In the upperarcade the distance between the axes of the principalcolumns is 18 of their modules. Their pedestals are 4modules high, the columns, including bases and capitals, 18modules, and entablature 4 m
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. he arch springs is 10| moduleshigh; from axis to axis of the small columns in the lowerarcade is 9 modules. The height of the plinth is U module,of the principal columns, including bases and plinths, 165modules, and of their entablature 4 modules. In the upperarcade the distance between the axes of the principalcolumns is 18 of their modules. Their pedestals are 4modules high, the columns, including bases and capitals, 18modules, and entablature 4 modules high. The width of thearch is 9§ modules, and its height 20^ modules. The heightof the small columns is 1 1 • modules high, includingtheir entablature. 2664. The use of arcades above arcades seems from itsnature almost confined to public buildings, as among theancients to their theatres and amj)hitheatres. In the in- Fir. 922. terior quadrangles or courts of palaces they have been much employed on the Continent,and in the magnificent design made by Inigo Jones for the palace at Mhitehall are tobe found some very fine Sect. XIII. BASEMENTS AtiT) ATTICS. 2665. When the order used for decorating the facade of a building is i)lnced in the middlewr second story, it is seated on a story called the basement. The proportion of iis height tothe rest must in a great measure depend on the use to which its apartments are to beappropriated. In Italy, observes Chambers, where their summer habitations are veryfrequently on that floor, the basements are sometimes very high. At the palace of Porti,in Vicenza, the height is equal to that of the order placed thereupon ; and at the Thiene,in the same city, its height exceeds two thirds of that of the order, although it be almostof a sutticicnt elevation to contain two stories; but at the Villa Cajira, and at the LocoArsieri, both near Vicenza, the basement is only half the height of the order ; because inboth these the gro
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