Composite order column by Claude Perrault, French Renaissance architect illustration. See description for more information.
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EBEJ9XFile size:
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3451 x 4961 px | 29.2 x 42 cm | 11.5 x 16.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1683Location:
Paris, FranceMore information:
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Composite column and entablature (above columns showing architrave, frieze and cornice). The composite order is a mixed order, combining the volutes of the Ionic order capital with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian order. The composite order volutes are larger, however, and the composite order also has echinus molding with egg-and-dart ornamentation between the volutes. The column of the composite order is ten diameters high. Claude Perrault (1613-1688) French architect, physician and doctor best know for 'Perrault's Colonnade' on the facade of the East wing of the Lourve in Paris. Image from 1683 first edition of ‘Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des anciens’ a translation of De Architectura', the only surviving Roman work on architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (80-15BC), made at the request of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.