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Part II five Kinds of Columns,

Tuscan. Doric. Ionic. Corinthian.’ Composite.

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Viti^vvivs describes a Base for the Ionic and Corinthian Columns, BASEwhich most of the Moderns use only for the Ionic , and which is found of thein none of the Ionic Works that remain of the Ancients , who always Column,gave it the Attic Base: Some of the Moderns , as Alherti and Viola ygive it the Corinthian Base, and only follow VitruVius y in that they y

give, as he does, the fame Base to the Ionic and Corinthian Co-lumns.

The Proportions of this Base, according to VitruVm , are foundby dividing the whole Height of the Base into three ; one of whichis given to the Plinth, as in the Attic Base 5 the Remainder beingdivided into seven Parts, three are given to a Torus, which is atthe upper Part of the Bale, what remains, is again divided intotwo, and each of these two Parts into ten others, of which, twoare for a Fillet under the Torus, five for a Scotia, one for the low-er Fillet of the Scotia, and two for an Astragal, which is accom-panied with another Astragal of the fame Bigness, and with ano-ther Scotia, having the fame Dimension and the fame Fillets as theformer, the greater Fillet being upon the Plinth.

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