Andrea Palladio · The Fourth Book
Chapter XXV. Of the temple that is below Trevi
BETWEEN Fuligno, and Spolet, below Trevi, is found the little temple, of which are the designs that follow. The basement which supports it is eight foot and an half high. To this height one ascends by the steps placed on the sides of the portico, which lead to two little portico’s, that project from the remainder of the temple.
The aspect of this temple is prostilos. Its manner is thick of columns. The chapel that is opposite to the entrance into the cella has very beautiful ornaments, and the columns have wreathed flutings; and so these, as well as those of the portico’s, are of the Corinthian order, delicately wrought, and with beautiful variety of intaglia’s. Hence, as well in this, as in all the other temples, it evidently appears, that what I have said in the first book is true; that is, that the antients in such kinds of edifices, and particularly in the small ones, applied very great diligence in polishing each part, and in making all possible ornaments for I them,
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FOURTH BOOK 108 them, that they might be well: but in large fabricks, or amphitheatres, and such like, they polished some small part only, leaving the remainder rough, to save expence, and the time that would have been wasted in policing the whole; as shall be seen in the book of the amphitheatres, which I hope soon to put out.
I have made four plates of this small temple.
In the first is the plan, where the floor of the temple is marked, A. Plate 5, the of “V of the basement which encompasses and Supports the whale temple, In the second is the elevation of half the front on the outside, Plate Inv the third is the elevation of half the part within, Plate In the fourth is the elevation of the flank, Plate
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