The Textbook of Architecture

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The arch framed by an order

Arches on piers with engaged columns and a continuous entablature, the Roman combination codified by Vignola.

The arch framed by an order Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Ancient Roman · Renaissance

The rules it illustrates

The arch framed by an order. Set arches on piers and frame each bay with an engaged column or pilaster carrying a continuous entablature, so that the arch does the work and the order gives the measure.

The column is the chief ornament. In all architecture the principal ornament is the column: a part of the wall left standing and pierced through.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Columns in Company.