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Co. VII.great Statue, which is very mucti larger than those that are upotithe Columns of the Order, to which, they are proportional, as thegreat Statue is to the Massive.

Neither ought we to make Statues plac’d above, bigger thanthose set below, when they are of the same Kind, that is, whenboth stand each in their own Story and Order: but, on the con-trary, they ought always to be diminish’d, as the Orders are,which are necessarily less above than below.

The third Cafe is, when two half Pilasters make an inward An-gle : for then they must be allowed a little more than their Semi-diameter, to prevent the ill Effect, the Capital and the Flutingswould necessarily produce, were not the half Pilasters inlarg’d inthis manner, as I noted in the precedent Chapter. And 't ismanifest, this Change is not made for any Reason of the Op-tics, but to give some of the Parts a little more Breadth thanthey should have, that we be not oblig’d to straiten and narrow o-thers more than they ought to be: for this is done in the CorinthianCapital, in giving the two half Leaves, of the second Range, morethan the half, in the inward Angle; because, had they no morethan precisely the half, the bending of the Leaf would be render dtoo sharp and pointed; and the middle Volutes too close together,were they not thus enlarg’d.

The fourth Cafe is, if we would, according to the Opinion ofScamozz}, place the Composite Order between the Ionic and Corinthian ,which I very much approve of, the Composite Capital having muchAffinity with the Ionic , and the Grofnefs of its Entablature, makingit, also, bear more Proportion to the massive Orders, than the Co-rinthian does: for in this Cafe, it would be necessary to change theProportions, which might be done, by setting the Composite Column,with its Entablature, upon the Corinthian Pedestal, {Forming theShaft of the Column by two little Modules, and in like manner,placing the Corinthian Column, with its Entablature, upon the Com-posite Pedestal, and adding two little Modules to the Length of itsShaft. There may be, also, other Cafes, where it may be permit-ted to change the Proportions: but I believe there are none whereit ought to be done, for any Reasons of the Optics: for a Sculp-tor may be allow’d to choose such Postures as will best suit theDilpofition of his Figures, and avoid all such as would producean ill Effect 5 as Mons. Girardon has done, very judiciously, atSeaux, where he has made a very large Statue of MinerVa , fittingat the Top of the Building, on the highest Acroterion of the Pedi-ment, and dispos’d it so, that, being seated something high, theKnees hide no Part of the Body, as they would have done, hadthey been rais’d higher: but the Truth is, that in this Change, he

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