Fig. 183.—Roman Doric. From the Theater of Marcellus.
The crowning members of the cornice are conjectural, for the whole has been broken away. See Desgodetz.
Fig. 184.—Roman Ionic. Entablature, capital, and base of an angle column, at the Temple of Fortuna Virilis.
shallower than in the Greek examples. In the frieze the triglyphs are over the centres of the angle columns; the guttæ are the frustums of cones, while those of the Greeks were cylinders or with hollowed sides; the cornice has a dentilled bed mould; and the mutules have disappeared, but their edge runs through and the soffit is slanting, and ornamented alternately with coffers and small guttæ, six on face and three deep; and besides, the cymatium of the corona is capped by a large cavetto; this in the Greek examples was only the crowning member of the slanting sides of the pediment. There are Roman Doric columns at the Colosseum, at Diocletian’s Baths at Rome, and elsewhere. The Doric, best known to us, was elaborated by the Italian architects of the Renaissance.