Fig. xxvi.
Figura Vigesimasexta.
Deformatio coronicis Etruscæ.
Post capitella sequuntur coronices, quæ utpote quadratæ, minimam habent arduitatem. Inter coronices verò, nulla est Etruscâ simplicior ac facilior. Ex elevatione geometricâ, more solito, formatur vestigium geometricum; ex eoque opticè contracto eruitur similis elevatio longitudinis. Demùm ex elevatione & vestigio componitur coronix nitida. Memineris autem duas esse lineas, quæ hinc inde terminant latitudinem elevationis opticæ. Linea quæ altior est, dat altitudinem anterioris faciei coronicis, alia quæ est depressior, dat altitudinem faciei posterioris. Et ita erit in posterum.
Twenty-sixth Figure.
The Tuscan Entablature in Perspective.
After Capitals we proceed to Entablatures, which because they are square, are less difficult than the former. And of all Entablatures, that of the Tuscan Order is the most simple and easie to be put in execution. From the Geometrical Upright is drawn, as usual, the Geometrical Plan; from the Plan put in Perspective is describ’d the Optick Elevation of the Length; and from both the latter is wrought the clean Entablature requir’d. You may observe, here are two Lines that terminate the Breadth of the Perspective on one side and the other. The Line which proceeds from the higher Corner of the Visual, gives the Height of the most advanc’d Part; that from the lower determines the Height of the Back-part. And so for the future.