Fig. 189.—Roman Composite. Entablature, capital, and base, Arch of Titus.
It was the practical solution for a practical people of a want that was felt. Artistically speaking, it was no solution, and we can imagine that if such a solution had been offered to the Athenians in their palmy days, the author would have been howled at, and hunted out of the city.
I may mention that the orders that have passed through the hands of the Italian masters and been altered by them are not Classical, but Renaissance.
Those who wish to study this subject will find the Greek examples in Stuart and Rivett’s Antiquities of Athens; in Mr. Penrose’s Principles of Athenian Architecture; in the books published by the Dilettanti Society; in Cockerell’s Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius at Ægina; in Inwood’s Erectheion; and in Wilkins’ Antiquities of Magna Græcia. J. Pennethorne’s Elements and Mathematical Principles of the Greek Architects gives many examples of profiles: “The Roman,” in Les Édifices Antiques de Rome, by Desgodetz; Cresy and Taylor’s Architectural Antiquities of Rome; Normand’s Parallel of the Orders; and Mr. Phené Spiers’ Orders of Architecture.
A CHAPTER ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOME FIGURES AND CURVES IN PRACTICAL PLANE GEOMETRY USEFUL IN ORNAMENT.
Definitions and names of figures from 1 to 13.
An Equilateral triangle is a triangle which has three equal sides. Fig. [1].)
An Isosceles triangle is that which has only two sides equal. Fig. [2].)
A Scalene triangle is that which has three unequal sides. Fig. [3].)