48 The Or don nance of the Part II.

Chap. I. out the Plinth, is equal to its Height, and that the Projecture ofthe entire Cornice, is a small matter more than that of the Base;alls which is to be understood of all the Orders, except the Tuscan ,where the Procedures of the Base, and of the Cornice of the Pe-destal are equal. As for the Projecture of the Members of whichthese Parts of the Tuscan Pedestal are compos d; the Hollow of theCornice has one Fifth and a half of the little Module, and theHollow of the Base has two, reckoning from the Naked of theDie, or Trunk of the Pedestal.

Now the Proportions and Characters of this Pedestal, hold theMean between the two Excesses, found in the Works both of theAncients and Moderns , where the Pedestal is sometimes excessivelyadorn’d, as in the Trajan Column, whose Base and Cornice haveall the Mouldings of the Corinthian Pedestal, and where, sometimes,it has no Ornament at all, as in the Tuscan Order of *P alladio , wherethere is only a kind of square Plinth or Socle, without either Baseor Cornice. The Tuscan Pedestal of Scamo^s, like this of ours,keeps a Medium between these two Extremes.

! 'BASE of Th i Base of the Column, which has a semi-diameter in Height,

the or one little Module and a half, and which comprehends the Fillet

Column or Cincture, at the Bottom of the Shaft of the Column, is dividedonly into two Parts, one of which is for the Plinth: the other be-ing again divided into five Parts, four are given to the Torus, andone to the Cincture, which is a part belonging properly to theShaft of the Column: and this fifth Part of the half of the Base,which is the twentieth Part of the Diameter of the Column below,is as has been said, the Measure of all the Cinctures at the Bottomof the Columns in all the Orders; because there is no other Orderbesides the Tuscan , where this Part is determin d, and that we findthis Proportion has been followed in some of the Ancients Works 5and in those which differ from it, some making it a great deal lar-ger, and others a great deal lest, it is reasonable to think that theMean is to be chosen as the best. All the other Proportions ofthis Base are also in a Medium, between those which the Ancientsand Moderns have establish’d, which are different : for the Plinthwhich I make according to VitruVius , half as high as the whole Base,is, in the Column of Trajan , lest by one Minute, and, in that ofScamo^zj, greater by three Minutes. The Torus, whose HeightI make twelve Minutes, is in the Column of Trajan y in <P alladio andVignola , twelve and a half, and in Serlio but ten. The Cinctureor Fillet, which I make of three Minutes, is of three and a half inthe Trajan Column, of five in Serlio , and Talladio and Vignola makeit but of two and a half. The Projecture of the Base, as hasbeen already mention d, is of three Fifths of a Module.

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