Alberti, Leone Battista
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Architecture
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1755
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round this little Chapel was a Grove of all Sorts
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of Fruit-trees, and a large green Meadow, full of
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Roſes and other Flowers and Herbs of grateful
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Scent, and of every Thing that could make the
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Place delightful and agreeable. </
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>The Epitaph
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was adapted to the Structure:</
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am I that founded
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Perſia's
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State,
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Then envy not this little Place of Reſt.
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>BUT to return to Pyramids. </
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haps may have built their Pyramids with three
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Sides, but they have generally been made with
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four, and their Height has moſt commonly
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been made equal to their Breadth. </
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been particularly commended for making the
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Joints of the Stones in their Pyramids ſo cloſe,
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that the Shadow which they caſt was perfectly
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ſtraight without the leaſt Interruption. </
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mids have for the moſt Part been made of
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ſquare Stone, but ſome few have been built
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with Brick. </
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been erected as Monuments; ſome have been
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ſuch as are uſed in other Structures; others have
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been ſo large as to be fit for no Edifice; but
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merely to ſerve as a Monument to Poſterity.
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>OF this laſt Sort we are now to treat, and its
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Members are as follows: Inſtead of a Baſement
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there are ſeveral Steps riſing above the Level
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of the Platform, over theſe a ſquare Plinth, and
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above that another not leſs than the firſt. </
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the third Place came the Baſe of the Column,
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then the Column with its Capital, and laſt of
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all the Statue ſtanding upon a Plinth. </
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between the firſt and ſecond Plinths under the
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Baſe placed a Sort of Die to raiſe the Work
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higher, and give it the greater Air of Majeſty.
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from the Diameter of the Bottom of the Shaft,
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as we obſerved with Relation to the Columns
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of the Temples; but the Baſe, in this Caſe
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where the Superſtructure is to be ſo very large,
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muſt have but one Torus, and not ſeveral like
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common Columns. </
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the Baſe therefore muſt be divided into five
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Parts, two of which muſt be given to the To
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rus, and three to the Plinth. </
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the Plinth every Way muſt be one Diameter
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and a Quarter of the Shaft of the Column. </
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Pedeſtal on which this Baſe lies muſt have the
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following Parts. </
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this, and indeed all other Ornaments, muſt be
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a Cymatium, and the lowermoſt a Plinth, which,
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whether it be in the Nature of Steps, or of a
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Cyma either upright or reverſed, is properly the
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Baſe of each Member. </
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Things relating to Pedeſtals to take Notice of,
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which we purpoſely omitted in the laſt Book,
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in order to conſider them here. </
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that it was uſual to run up a continued low
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Wall under all the Columns, in order to ſup
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port them; but then to make the Paſſage more
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clear and open, it was common to remove that
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Part of this Wall which lay between the Co
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lumns, and to leave only that Part which was
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really neceſſary to the Support of the Column.
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ſtal. </
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Top was a Cymatium, either upright or reverſ
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ed, or ſomething of the ſame Nature, which
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was anſwerd at the Bottom by a Plinth. </
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two Ornaments went clear round the Pedeſtal.
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Height of the whole Pedeſtal, or elſe the ſixth;
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and the Body of the Pedeſtal was never leſs in
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Thickneſs than the Diameter of the Bottom of
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the Shaft, that the Plinth of the Baſe might not
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lie upon a Void. </
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the Work yet more, made the Pedeſtal broader
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than the Plinth of the Baſe, by an eighth Part of
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that Plinth. </
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ſtal, beſides its Cymatium and Plinth, was either
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equal to its Breadth, or a fifth Part more: And
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this I find to have been the Ordonnance of the
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Pedeſtal under the Columns uſed by the moſt
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excellent Workmen. </
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lumn. </
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to place the Pedeſtal, anſwering duly to the
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Proportions of the Baſe in the Manner juſt now
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mentioned. </
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with an entire Cornice, which is moſt uſually
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of the
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Ionic
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Order; the Members of which you
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may remember to be as follows: The firſt and
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loweſt Member is a Cymatium, then a Denticle,
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next an Ovolo, with a ſmall Baguette and a
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Fillet. </
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anſwerable to the former in every Member, and
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of ſuch a Proportion that no Part of the Super
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ſtructure may lie over a Void; but to this Pe
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deſtal we muſt aſcend from the Level of the
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Ground by three or five Steps, unequal both in
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their Height and Breadth; and theſe Stepts all
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together muſt not be higher than a fourth, nor
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lower than a ſixth Part of the Height of the
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Pedeſtal which ſtands upon them. </
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Pedeſtal we make a Door dreſſed after the Man
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ner of the
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Doric
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or
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Ionic
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Order, according to
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the Rules already laid down for the Doors of
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Temples. </
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Inſcriptions or carve Trophies. </
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