Contents
The Five Orders
Arches and Vaults, Roofs and Domes, Doors and Windows, Walls and Ceilings, Steps and Staircases
Arches
- Elliptical Arches
- Segmental Arches
- Palladio’s Motive
- Arches Without Pedestals
- Arches With Pedestals
- Superposed Arches
- Arcades
Vaults
- Intersecting Cylinders
- Groined Arches and Corridors
- Grouped Pilasters
- Arcades
Rooms
- Penetrations
- Coved Ceilings
- Octagonal Plans
Roofs
Gabled Roofs
- Pyramidal Gabled Roofs
- Other Roofs
- Roofs of Equal Slope
Domes
- Octagonal Domes
- Half Domes and Niches
Doors and Windows
- Doorways
- Windows
Walls
- Rustication
- Quoins
- Florentine Arches
Wall Treatment
- Pilasters
- External Angles
- Internal Angles
- Double Corners
- The Mutulary Doric Order
- The Denticulated Doric Order
- The Corinithian Order
- Columns
- Obtuse Angles
- Cornices
- Ceilings
Steps and Staircases
- Nosings
- Flights of Two or Three Runs
- Winders
- Circular Stairs
- Balancing
- Elliptical Steps
- Symmetrical Steps
- Cruciform Steps
- Vaulted Staircases
- Headroom
- Lighting
- Circular and Spiral Staircases
Superposition and Intercolumniation
- Diameter the same in each order
- Diameter diminished in each order
- section showing axis set back in each story
- coupled (1 1/2 D)
- pycnostyle (2 1/4 D)
- systyle (3 D)
- eustyle (3 1/3 D)
- diastyle (4 D)
- areostyle (5 D)
- areosystyle (6 D)
- coupled
- monotriglphyic
- ditriglyphic
- tri-triglyphic
- tetra-triglyphic
Mouldings
- ovolo
- cavetto
- cyma recta
- cyma reversa
- torus
- 3/4 round
- scotia
- 3/4 hollow
- thumb molding
- Venetian molding
- scotia molding
- quirked cyma recta
- quirked cyma reversa
- beak molding
- splay faces
- face or fascia
- 3/4 bead
- sunk fillet
- raised fillet
- beads
- 3/4 bead
- reeds
- congé
- cymatium
Pedestals and Pilasters
- Tuscan
- Doric
- Ionic
- Corinthian
- Composite
- According to Vignola the pedestal is one third the height of the column. It is frequently less.
Pediments
Sources Cited
Ware, William R. The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977 (1st edition, 1905-1906).
Key Facts
At time of upload on January 19, 2025: