_Of the_ Corinthian _Order_.
[Sidenote: _Lib. 4. Chap. 2._]
The Pillars of the _Corinthian Order_ have no other Proportions than the
_Ionick_, except in the _Capital_, whose height make them appear
slenderer and higher. The other parts or Members, as the _Architrave_,
_Frise_, and _Cornice_, borrow their Proportions from the _Dorick_ and
_Ionick Order_, having nothing particular, for the _Corinthian
Modillons_ are imitated by the _Mutils_ of the _Dorick Order_, and the
_Dentils_ are the same with the _Ionick_; this being so, we have nothing
to do but to give the Proportions of the _Capital_, which are these; The
_Capital_ comprizing the _Abacus_, hath for its height, the breadth of
the bottom of the Pillar.
To have the true breadth of the _Abacus_, we must have a care that its
_Diagonal_ be double the height of the _Capital_, the bending that the
sides of the _Abacus_ have inward, is a 9th. part of a side, the bottom
of the _Capital_ is equal to the Neck of the Pillar. The thickness of
the _Abacus_ is a 7th. part of the whole _Capital_.
Two of these seven parts must be taken for the height of every Leaf, of
which there are two Ranks, each of which has four Leaves.
The Stalks or little Branches are likewise composed of other Leaves, and
which grow between the Leaves of the Rank above, ought to have two of
these seven parts comprising the _Volutes_.
These _Volutes_ begin within the Stalks, of which, those that are the
greatest extend to the Extreme parts of the _Angles_ of the _Abacus_;
the other are below the _Roses_.
These _Roses_ which are in the middle of every _Face_ of the _Abacus_,
ought to be as great as the _Abacus_ is thick.
The _Ornaments_ of the _Corinthian Order_, viz. The _Architrave_, the
_Frise_, and the _Cornice_, do not in the least differ from those of the
_Ionick Order_. See Tab. IX.