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with the Architrave, and keep it flat as before directed; for the swelling gives it a clumsyappearance, and renders the outline of the whole Entablature confused, and too abun-dant in curves. In the Antiques there are few examples of these swelled Frizes j and theynever succeed, but on doors or windows, where the Profile of the Architrave is not seen:there they form a good contrast with the upright jambs; and have the farther advantageof contracting the breadth of the Cornice, (which in narrow intercolumniations is veryconvenient), and avoids the licentious practice of making the Frize and Cornice no broaderthan the aperture, supporting it on each side with a Scroll, as at the Sorbonne inParis, and at the Mansion-House in this City. Palladio, in both these Profiles, has en-riched the Soffit of the Corona with Roses; which are here omitted, as in most cafesthey should be. However, if the Column is fluted, and the rest of the Compositionmuch adorned, they may be employed; observing to proportion the Pannels and otherparts, as in the Corinthian or Composite Order.

The Antique Ionic Capital differs from any of the others. Its Fronts and Sides arenot alike. This particularity occasions a very great difficulty, where ever there areany Breaks, or where the decoration is continued in Flank as well as in Front: for eitherall the Capitals in the Flank must have the Baluster-side outwards, or the angular Ca-pitals will have a different appearance from the rest; neither of which is eligible. TheArchitect of the Temple of Fortune has fallen upon an expedient, that, in some de-gree, remedies the defect: the angular Capitals have the outward Volute in an obliqueposition, inclining equally to the Front and Side, and fronting both ways. Where per-sons are violently attached to the Antique, and bent on rejecting all Modern inventions,however excellent, this is the only method that I know of: but when that is not thecafe, the angular Capital invented by Scamozzi, or rather imitated by him from theTemple of Concord, ought to be employed j for the distorted figure of the AntiqueCapital, with one Volute parallel and the other oblique, is very difagreable to thesight.

Annexed is a Design of Scamozzi’s Capital, and another of a very beautiful oneexecuted in St. Peter’s os the Vatican, at the Church of the Roman College, and atsome other places in Rome.

I have employed the Attic Base in this Order. Of the Antique Base described byVitruvius, and used by Vignola and Philibert de l’Orme, in their Ionic Order, there isno example in the Antiques; and as it is universally esteemed a very imperfect produc-tion, I have not given any Design of it.

As the Doric Order is particularly affected in buildings dedicated to male Saints, sothe Ionic is used in such as are erected to female Saints of the Matronal state. It is like-wise employed in Halls of Justice, in Libraries, Colleges, and other Structures thathave any relation to Arts or Letters, in private Houses and in Palaces, to adorn theWomen’s Apartments, and, fays le Clerc, in all places consecrated to peace and tran-quillity. The Antients used it in Temples dedicated to Juno, to Bacchus, to Diana,and other Deities whose dispositions held a medium between the severe and effeminate.,

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