Sebastiano Serlio · Fourth Book: Of the Five Manners of Building
Of Doores of Wood, and of Metall. The tenth Chapter
AS I thinke, I haue sufficiently spoken of the Ornaments belonging to building of Stone, now I will speake of Doores that shut the houses: whether they be of Wood or Metall, I will set downe some Figures thereof: of the hookes I will say nothing, for all the world knowes them well enough: neuerthelesse, those that were vsed in ancient time, as you see them in the Figure A. were easilyer to be opened and shut, then those which are now vsed in all Countries, as in the Figure B. But whether these Doores are of Wood or Metall, their Ornaments shalbe made in such maner, that the fayrer the Ornaments of Stone are, the Ornament of the Gate also shall bee correspondent, that they may be one like the other; and to the contrary, if the Ornament bee slender, then you shall make the Doore of Wood or Metall thereafter, which is to be referred to the workeman: and to giue you a shew of such Ornaments, you shall here see fiue maners of Ornaments, which, for the most part, are taken out of Antiquities.
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