Normand, Charles-Pierre-Joseph

Charles-Pierre-Joseph Normand (1765–1840), French architect, designer and engraver, set the classical orders out in measured...

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Charles-Pierre-Joseph Normand (1765–1840), French architect, designer and engraver, set the classical orders out in measured comparison, and these prints show his method still in use in early-twentieth-century issues, including Cordingley's re-edition. The plates compare the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite orders through bases, capitals, shafts and entablatures, setting monuments at Athens, Paestum and Rome beside the systems of Palladio, Vignola, Serlio and Scamozzi. Volute construction, doorways, mouldings and column diminution supply the details needed for study, and caryatids and ornamental compositions carry the vocabulary beyond freestanding columns.

Charles-Pierre-Joseph Normand (1765–1840), French architect, designer and engraver, set the classical orders out in measured comparison, and these prints show his method still in use in early-twentieth-century issues, including Cordingley's re-edition. The plates compare the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite orders through bases, capitals, shafts and entablatures, setting monuments at Athens, Paestum and Rome beside the systems of Palladio, Vignola, Serlio and Scamozzi. Volute construction, doorways, mouldings and column diminution supply the details needed for study, and caryatids and ornamental compositions carry the vocabulary beyond freestanding columns.

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