Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 173
Architecture. The early Renaissance designers, as we have seen,made little effort to combine and proportion theircolmnns, pilasters and entablatures according to the 115 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT canons of antique Roman practice or the rules ofVitruvius. It was the Middle Renaissance that de-veloped… … Fig. 87.—Four Orders of Architecture. were recognized: the Tuscan, Doric (in iwo forms, onehaving mutules, the other dentils under the corona),Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Fig. 87 presents thefirst four of these in elevation (the middle portion ofthe shaft being omitted) : the Composite is…
Decoration and ornament
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