J. M. von Mauch · Caryatids, Entablatures and Proportions
Plate 89. Ornamentation of the Members
Of the Roman examples of ornament we find many on this plate at a large scale. Normand (from whom our plate is taken) represented only Roman ornament, and omitted the profiles, which is to be regretted.
In the ornamentation and arrangement of members we find the Grecians had the greatest refinement; in contrast to this the Romans were apt to be over-extravagant.
The ornamental mouldings represented here, used with reserve and judgment, can be made to serve very useful purposes.
Public-domain text (1910), transcribed from the archive.org OCR of the Architectural Reprint edition and cleaned for reading: line-end hyphens rejoined, running heads, page numbers and the German and French captions engraved on the plates removed, and obvious misreadings corrected. Fractions the scan does not show legibly are marked […]; words lost at a page edge are restored in [brackets]. The nomenclature lists of Plates 23, 24, 29, 49, 75 and 82 are set as running text. Mauch’s plates (from his German edition of 1845) are not reproduced; the live figures are this book’s own.