CaAP. I. THE CORINTHIAN ORDER.

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2584. Fig. 889. sliows the details of the entablature, &c. and also the profile and front
of the Corinthian modillion to a larger scale. On the profile is shown the caisson or sunk
panel on the sofite of the corona. The height is six parts, and the projection sixteen. As
seen in the figure, a distance equal to three parts and a half is taken for the height of the
t-inaller volute, and on this distance a scale of sixteen equal parts is made; the figure shows
the dimensions to be given to the small squares, whose angles serve as centres to describe
the curves. Having drawn the line AB, it is divided into four equal parts by lines per-
pendicular to it, which, meeting vertical lines from A and B, give the points, which serve
as centres for striking the curve of the modillions. The acanthus leaf which supports it,
as v.-ell as the curves which form the profile of the roses in the caisson, are also struck by
compasses.
2285. In
Jiff.
890., which exhibits the method of drawing the Corinthian capital, one half
of the plan shows the capital in plan, and the other half of it laid down diagonally. Having
drawn the axis of the plan correspondent to the axis of the elevation of the capital, with a
radius equal to two modules, describe a circle, wliich divide into sixteen equal parts
Their lines of division will each correspond to the centre of each leaf. The vase of tht
capital is determined by a circle whose radius is 14^ parts. The figure shows the circles
which bound the leaves upwards on the vase.
258G. The elevation shows the heights whereon are carried the projections of the plan.