. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s them, as in the annexed de-sign iJig- 925.), and as they are executed inthe church of the Roman college at the small leaves have a considerablethickness, though the of the capital isexactly the same as that of the shaft, in eaclifront of the Composite or Corinthian pilastercapital, there must be two small leaves withone entire and two half large ones. They mustbe either of olive, acanthus, parsley, or laurel,massed, divided, an
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s them, as in the annexed de-sign iJig- 925.), and as they are executed inthe church of the Roman college at the small leaves have a considerablethickness, though the of the capital isexactly the same as that of the shaft, in eaclifront of the Composite or Corinthian pilastercapital, there must be two small leaves withone entire and two half large ones. They mustbe either of olive, acanthus, parsley, or laurel,massed, divided, and wrought, in the samemanner as those of the columns are, the onlydifference being that they will be somewhat broader. 2680. It is desirable to avoid the use of pilasters at inward angles penetrating eachother, because of the irregularity such practice produces in the entablatures and break is quite as much as should be ever tolerated, though in many of the churches inRome they are multiplied with great profusion of mutilated capitals and entablatures; than which, observes Chambers, nothing can be more confused or FiK. 925. 902 PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTUIIE. Book III. 26SI. Neither should columns be allo\yed to penetrate each other, as they do in theTOurt of the Louvre, inasmuch as the same irregularity is induced by it as we have in the case of pilasters. Sect. XV. CAKVATIDES AND PEHSIANS. C(>82. The origin of taryatides we have in the First Book (165, etseq.) so far as regarnso\ir own opinions, explained, and in that res])ect we shall not trouble the reader. Our objectill this section is merely to ofter some observations on the use of them in modern figures denominated Persians, Atlantes, and the like, are in the same category, and weshall not therefore stop to inquire into their respective merits ; indeed, that has already beensufficiently done in the book above alluded to. The writer of the article in the En-cyclopedie M
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