A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern; In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors Who Have Written Upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and de Lorme
A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern; In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors Who Have Written Upon the Five Orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and de Lorme,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1707 Excerpt: ...ability: For in these particulars our Eyes fee no further than our understanding purges them, nor do their admirable Beauties reveal themselves at once, nor to all the World in general; They will be curioufly observed and discovered with Industry: There are likewise several kinds which every one considers according to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1707 Excerpt: ...ability: For in these particulars our Eyes fee no further than our understanding purges them, nor do their admirable Beauties reveal themselves at once, nor to all the World in general; They will be curioufly observed and discovered with Industry: There are likewise several kinds which every one considers according to the force of his Wit, and as they conform to his Genius: Some there are who seek only the Grace and Neatness of Ornaments; others consider the nobleness of the Work and novelty of the Invention; the most knowing have regard to the proportions chiefly, and the regularity of the whole with its Parts, to the judicious Composition, the greatness and solidity of the Dejign, and such esisential Beauties as are only visible to the Eves of the most intelligent Architects; from whence it often fells out, that the fame Work in which all these parts are not equally perfect, is variousty esteemd by those of the Trofejswn (for there but few like this of ours so qualified as to merit anuniverlal approbation, ) and the misery of it is, that the best things have for the most part many fewer Admirers then the in different, because their are more Dunces than able Men. The Module of the following Design, and the Method of deciphering is the fame with what went before; viz. That pasting a Perpendicular through the Center of the Column the whole height of the Order, I divide the Serin diameter of the Pillar at the foot into thirty Minutes which compose the Module, upon which I afterwards regulate all the Members as well for their height as sailings over, and projeclure of their Profiles, still beginning by this Central line of the Column, that so the position of each individual part be exactly adjusted and precisely in its place. This is so perspicuous, and has bee..
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