abuse
Violation of established uses or corruption of form in Classical architecture. Palladio included among abuses brackets, consoles, or modillions supporting (or seeming to support) a structural load, e.g. a column; broken or open-topped pediments; exaggerated overhangs of cornices; and rusticated or banded columns. Perrault and others identified others: pilasters and columns physically joined, especially at the corner of a building; coupled columns (which Perrault himself employed at the east front of the Louvre, Paris); distortion of metopes in abnormally wide intercolumniations; omission of the bottom part of the Ionic abacus; Giant instead of assemblage of Orders; an inverted cavetto between a column-base plinth and a pedestal-cornice; architrave-cornices (as in Hellenistic Ionic); and entablatures broken or interrupted above a column. Many abuses featured in Mannerist and Baroque architecture. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)