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    Orders of Architecture
    Orders of Architecture
    Orders of Architecture
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    Orders of Architecture

    By R. A. Cordingley

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    A complete reference to the classical orders of architecture, this magnificently illustrated volume covers the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance periods. In addition to its fully representative selection of works by Italian and French Renaissance architects, the collection features a fine series of measured drawings derived from still-extant monuments of Greek and Roman antiquity. Since the "Orders" created by the Renaissance builders were based upon the earlier structures, this book provides a means of critical comparison as well as an excellent perspective on the growth and significance of the architectural orders.
    Eighty black-and-white plates by Augustus Pugin and other distinguished artists depict details of works by such architects as Vitruvius, Palladio, Vignola, Serlio, and Lescot. Featured Greek buildings include the Parthenon, the temples of Apollo and Jupiter, the Portico of Augustus, the Aqueduct of Hadrian, and others. More than twenty Roman structures include the Pantheon, the Colosseum and buildings in the adjacent forum, and the temples of Paestum.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateFeb 23, 2015
    ISBN9780486803463
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      Book preview

      Orders of Architecture - R. A. Cordingley

      ORDERS

      OF

      ARCHITECTURE

      R. A. CORDINGLEY

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      Mineola, New York

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of Normand’s Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, originally published by Quadrangle Books, Inc., Chicago, in 1951, and reprinted from the first English edition of the work, originally published by A. Pugin, London, in 1829.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Normand, Charles Pierre Joseph, 1765-1840.

      [Nouveau parallel des ordres d’architecture des Grecs, des Romains et des auteurs modernes. English] Orders of architecture / R. A. Cordingley.

           pages cm

      This Dover edition, first published in 2015, is an unabridged republication of Normand’s Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, originally published by Quadrangle Books, Inc., Chicago, in 1951, and reprinted from the first English edition of the work, originally published by A. Pugin, London, in 1829.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-486-80346-3

      1. Architecture—Orders. I. Cordingley, R. A. (Reginald Annandale), 1896–1962, editor. II. Title.

      NA2812.N7 2015

      721’.36––dc23

      2014036055

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation 79574801 2015

      www.doverpublications.com

      CONTENTS

      Index

      Introduction

      General Notes on the Plates

      Descriptive Notes on the Plates

      Plates

      INDEX

      Index to Buildings

      ALBANO, ROME, Building at 13

      ANTONINUS, ROME, Basilica of 50

      ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINA, ROME, Temple of 8, 47, 71

      APOLLO, CORINTH, Temple of 9

      APOLLO, DELOS, Temple of 9

      APOLLO DIDYMA, MILETUS, Temple of 27

      APOLLO EPICURIUS, BASSAE, Temple of 6, 6, 24, 25

      ARTEMIS (DIANA), EPHESUS, Temple of 4

      AUGUSTUS, ATHENS, Portico of 10

      CANCELLERIA PALACE, ROME 69

      CASTOR AND POLLUX, ROME, Temple of 8, 42

      COLOSSEUM, ROME 64

      CONSTANTINE, ROME, Arch of 49, 64

      DIOCLETIAN, ROME, Thermae of 14, 30, 57

      ERECHTHEUM, ATHENS 4, 22, 23, 24, 61, 66, 67

      FARNESE PALACE, ROME 68

      FERRARA CASTLE 69

      FORTUNA VIRILIS, ROME, Temple of 28

      HADRIAN, ATHENS, Aqueduct of 27

      ILISSUS, ATHENS, Temple on the 4, 20, 21

      INCANTADA, SALONICA 40

      JUPITER OLYMPIUS, ATHENS, Temple of 6, 39

      LYSICRATES, ATHENS, Monument of 6, 37

      MARCELLUS, ROME, Theatre of 7, 12, 29

      MARS ULTOR, ROME, Temple of 50, 71

      MINERVA POLIAS, PRIENE, Temple of 4, 26, 27

      NERVA, ROME, Forum of 46, 71

      NIKE APTEROS, ATHENS, Temple of 70

      PAESTUM, Temples at 3, 8, 10

      PANTHEON, ROME 44, 45, 63, 65, 67, 71

      PARTHENON, ATHENS 3, 4, 5, 5, 70

      PEACE, ROME, Temple of 63

      PHILLIP OF MACEDON, DELOS, Portico of 9

      POSEIDON, Temple of (see Paestum)

      PROPYLAEA, ATHENS 5, 10

      SEPTIMUS SEVERUS, ROME, Arch of 56, 64

      SERAPIS, ROME, Temple of 48

      S. LORENZO, ROME, Church of 68

      THESEUM, ATHENS 7

      THESEUS, ATHENS, Arch of 40

      THRASYLLUS, ATHENS, Monument of 11

      TITUS, ROME, Arch of 8, 55

      VESPASIAN, ROME, Temple of 43, 71

      VESTA, TIVOLI, Temple of 8, 41, 67

      WINDS, ATHENS, Tower of the 38

      Index to Architects, etc.

      ALBERTI 9, 34, 54

      AVILER, d’ 36

      CALLICRATES 6

      CALLIMACHUS 6

      GIBBS, James 10, 13

      GOLDMANN 36

      GOUJON, Jean 9, 62

      HERMOGENES 8

      ICTINUS 6, 8

      LESCOT 9

      LORME, Philibert de 9, 19

      PALLADIO 9, 14, 1, 5, 31, 35, 51, 52, 58

      SCAMOZZI 9, 14, 2, 16, 19, 32, 34, 52, 54, 59

      SERLIO 9, 12, 3, 34, 54, 65

      VIALA 19, 68

      VIGNOLA 9, 12, 13, 14, 4, 17, 18, 33, 35, 53, 60, 68

      VITRUVIUS 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 65

      WARE (W.R.) 10

      ZANNINI 19

      INTRODUCTION

      NORMAND’S Parallel of the Orders of Architecture is unusual in this class of publication in that it includes not only a fully representative selection of those standardised versions of the respective orders evolved by certain celebrated modern masters of Italian or French Renaissance architecture, but also a fine series of measured drawings derived from the actual monuments of Greek or Roman antiquity still surviving. As the Orders composed by the Renaissance writers were based on these very structures, we are consequently afforded a means of critical comparison as well as a wide opportunity for discrimination in the selection of proportions and details appealing to our individual taste. But we may only do justice to this excellent collection of drawings by an appreciation of the circumstances which attended the growth of the orders and a realisation of their underlying significance.

      THE GREEK ORDERS

      The story of the Orders begins in classical Greece. There, about the eighth century B.C., we find a post and lintol architecture, already artistically refined beyond essential structural needs, in process of translation from wood to stone. Though none of the ancient timber work has survived, almost every stone feature is recognisably derived from a wooden counterpart. It is an architecture of colonnades, in which regularly spaced

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