Parti, five Kinds of Columns.

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Of the Trofortion of the Tans of Tede(lals t

HE Pedestal being compos’d of the Basethe Die or Trunk, and the Cornice •these Parts have very different Propor-tions in the Works of the Ancients, aswell as in those of the Moderns. TheProportion we find generally observ'd inthe Antique, is, that the Base is greaterthan the Cornice, and that of the twoParts of which the Base is compos’d,the Zocco is always greater than the Mouldings, which taken to-gether, make the rest of the Base. Among the Modems, Serlioand Vignola have not observ’d these Proportions, for they make thePlinth, or Zocco, less than the Mouldings : in which, it seems,they design d to imitate the Bases of Columns, where the Plinth,which is as their Socle, makes but a Third or Fourth of the Heightof the Base.

(Pallctdto and Scamo%%i have followed the general Proportionsof the Antique ; only they are more regular, in that they alwaysmake the Base double to the Cornice. Scamozgi in the Composite,Ionic and Doric, makes the Socle double to the Mouldings of theBase.

Th e e needs but little Alteration in the Proportions of thesethree Parts, to bring them to a Regularity through the whole, asI have done, in all the Orders, making the Base the fourth Part ofthe whole Pedestal, the Cornice the eighth Part, and the Socle two

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