A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture

Doric columns from Athens and Paestum, Ionic volutes and Corinthian capitals are measured and set side by side in these prin...

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Doric columns from Athens and Paestum, Ionic volutes and Corinthian capitals are measured and set side by side in these prints from A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, Charles Normand's study of the Greek, Roman and Italian orders, re-edited by R. A. Cordingley for John Tiranti in 1931. The plates isolate bases, capitals, pedestals and entablatures from ancient buildings and from the treatises of Palladio, Vignola, Serlio and Scamozzi, including the Tuscan and Composite orders. Doors, windows, mouldings and the diminishing shafts of columns carry the comparison into practical design, and Greek and French caryatids show figured supports.

Doric columns from Athens and Paestum, Ionic volutes and Corinthian capitals are measured and set side by side in these prints from A Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, Charles Normand's study of the Greek, Roman and Italian orders, re-edited by R. A. Cordingley for John Tiranti in 1931. The plates isolate bases, capitals, pedestals and entablatures from ancient buildings and from the treatises of Palladio, Vignola, Serlio and Scamozzi, including the Tuscan and Composite orders. Doors, windows, mouldings and the diminishing shafts of columns carry the comparison into practical design, and Greek and French caryatids show figured supports.

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