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Part IL five Kinds of Columns.

ter-round which supplies the Mace of the great Cima, The Proje-ctures are taken from the fame fifth Parts, which determine allthe others; and so three Fifths are given to the Ogee and its Fillet,reckoning from the Naked of the Freeze, seven and a half to theCorona; nine to the Astragal and its Fillet, and twelve to theQuarter-round.

The Proportions and Character of the Entablature of the Tus-can Order are very different in Authors. As to the Proportion ofthe three parts which compose it, VitruVtus makes the Architravenot only larger than the Freeze, but even than the Cornice. <PaHa-dio also makes the Architrave very high, and greater than the Freeze,j Vignola makes it less. I have imitated Serlio , who makes the Ar-chitrave and Freezes equal.

As to its Character, VitruVius and Qalladio allow no more thana square Beam for rhe Architrave; on the contrary, Scamo^t givesit excessive Ornaments, as likewise to the Cornice, where he makesas many imbellifhments as in the Doric Order: He also puts in theFreeze a kind of Triglyph not channel’d. Serlio follows a Mannerquite opposite, making his Cornice so pitiful, that it has but threeMembers, for the ten which Scamozgj puts in his. The Cornice,which I propose, and which has much Affinity with that of VtgnoU ,keeps the middle between the Excess of Delicacy or Number ofMouldings given by Scamoggi, and that of the too great Simplicityand Plainness which Serlio affects.