The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . - lobate or platform of the building. Apedestal, however, was in later times introduced,consisting of three parts, the base, die, and cymatiumor cornice. The shaft was fluted, the flutes or channels being preferably twenty, but allowably sixteen or twenty-four innumber, more shallow than in the other orders, andmeeting on a sharjj edge at the surface. Theheight of the shaft, measured in the usual way bythe lower diameter as the unit of measure, variedin different structures from four diameters to sixand a half The sha
The science of aesthetics; or, The nature, kinds, laws, and uses of beauty . - lobate or platform of the building. Apedestal, however, was in later times introduced,consisting of three parts, the base, die, and cymatiumor cornice. The shaft was fluted, the flutes or channels being preferably twenty, but allowably sixteen or twenty-four innumber, more shallow than in the other orders, andmeeting on a sharjj edge at the surface. Theheight of the shaft, measured in the usual way bythe lower diameter as the unit of measure, variedin different structures from four diameters to sixand a half The shaft contracts with a slightconoidal curve or swell, called entasis, diminishingits diameter from bottom to top about capital of the column was about one-half of adiameter in height, and consisted of three parts:I, a necking of one or more annulets or circularfillets ; 2, a convex quarter-circle molding, called SPECIAL LA\\S. 201 ovolo; and 3, a square stone-abacus the entablature. Entablalun. i l\c entablature Aaric J iu heiL;lit frimia little more than one diameter of thecolumn, as in the temple at Iaestum, 202 LAWS OF BEAUTY. to over two diameters, as in the temple at consisted of three parts: i, The architrave, abeam with a plain surface, resting directly on theabacus of the column; 2, the frieze, having its sur-face broken by projections or tablets, calledtriglyphs, which were divided into three equal partsby two vertical channels or glyphs, a half channelbeing cut on each side, and were placed one overeach column and one between, thus leaving spacescalled metopes, which were sometimes richly orna-mented with relief work; and 3, the cornice. The pediment consisted of its base, thePediment. triangular space called the tympanum or drum which was often ornamentedwith statuary, and the cornice. There were great variations within the generallimits of relative massiveness and simplicity, ascompared with the other orders. The propor
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