The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; In Ten Books - Vitruvius Pollio

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... part more than the breadth. The lacunaria are carried up one-third of the width higher. The passages (fauces) towards courts which are on a smaller scale, are to be one-third less than the width of the tablinum; but if larger, they are to be one-half. The statues, with their ornaments, are to be placed at a height equal to the width of the alse. The proportions of the height and width of doors, if Doric, are to be formed in that method: if Ionic, according to the Ionic mode, agreeably to the rules given for doors in the fourth book. The width of the uncovered part of the atrium (impluvii lumen) is not to be less than a fourth nor more than one-third of its width; its length, however, will be in proportion to that of the atrium. The cloister (peri stylinm is diagonally one-third part longer than wide. The columns are to be as high as the width of the portico; and the intercolumniations of the peristylia are not to be less than three nor more than four diameters of the columns. But if the columns of a peristylium are of the Doric order, modules are taken, and the triglyphs arranged thereby, as described in the fourth book. CHAPTER V. OF TRICLINIA, (ECI, EXEDILE, PINACOTHECLE AND THEIR DIMENSIONS. The length of a triclinium is to be double its breadth. The height of all oblong rooms is thus regulated: add their length and breadth together, of which take one half, and it will give the dimension of the height. If, however, exedrse or ceci are square, their height is equal to once and a half their width. Pinacothecae (picture rooms), as well as exedrse, should be of large dimensions. The Corinthian tetrastyle and Egyptian ceci (halls) are to be proportioned similarly to the triclinia, as above described; but inasmuch as columns are used in...