Plate 19. From Albano near Rome

This order was discovered at Albano, near Rome, and Vignola seemed to have formed his Doric order with mutules therefrom (see Plate 24). We see from this example how decorative the Doric style was treated by the Romans. We find Ionic and Doric mixed here. The columns are slimmer than the former Doric proportions. They measure 7[…] diameters in height, and have no base, and their shaft is the Ionic with the upper and lower ending thereof. The capital is Doric of Ionic feeling, with an enriched echinus. The hypotrachelium here becomes an actual necking which on other Roman examples we find decorated with rosettes. The low or shallow architrave is, as in the Ionic, divided into facias. The tænia by breaking around under the triglyphs of the wide frieze becomes the regula also, and the guttæ are connected to it by a bead. The triglyph on the corner is placed over the center of the column so that here only half metopes occur. The strong overhanging corona has on its under side over the triglyphs, mutules, in the profile of a reverse moulding with guttæ attached, the number of the latter being double the usual (see Greek examples). The cyma has the profile of a cavetto, a form of the cyma which often occurs in Roman structures. Suffice to say the strong earnest style of the Grecians was entirely changed under the hands of the Romans and also by the architects of the Italian Renaissance time, and entirely stripped of its ancient and strong characteristics.