Identifier: cyclopediaofarch08ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American Technical Society
Subjects: Architecture Building
Publisher: Chicago : American Technical Society
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ding sections are almostthoroughly Roman in outline andthe Orders are all of a more or-dinary type. All three of thesebinldings are in Rome, and thetwo last are also the two bestknown examples of the use of theRoman Doric Order. The Colosseum. The Colos-seum is undoubtedly the bestknown amphitheater, and, whilecommenced in 72 A. D. by Ves-pasian, was continued by Titus,and finally inaugurated by Domi-tian in 82 A. D. At this timethe three lower stories only werecompleted. These stories areeach decorated on the face by anattached Order, the lowest beingTuscan (there are no trigljphsin the frieze), with mouldingsfollowing more the Etruscan thanthe Greek section. The secondstory is decorated with an IonicOrder, and the third with a Co-rinthian, set on a dado breakingout to form a sort of pedestalunderneath each column shaft.The entablatures are all carriedaround the building without anybreak. The top story, above thearcades, was not added until theearly part of the third centuryA. D. 204
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Detail of Theater of Marcellus, Rome. Showing Roman use of Ionic Order over Doric; also characteristic engaged colomns a&clarcade treatment.—Restored by Ch. Qirault and E. Poulm. I I STUDY OF THE ORDERS 199 Theater of Marcellus. In Fig. 113 is drawn out the RomanDoric Order from the Theater of Marcellus. This shaft is shownrising directly from a series of steps. Later discoveries seem to in-dicate that this shaft had a very simple base treatment. Fig. 110 is aperspective of a supposititious corner angle showing the use of aRoman Order, with details taken from the Theater of Marcellus.This example of a Doric Order—with the cornice falsely shown asthough broken around an outer angle or corner of the building—is nottypical, in that it omits entirely the mutule in the cornice. The mu-tule is as important a part of the general use of the Roman Doric Orderas it was of the Greek, save that in the later Roman usage the mutulewas never spaced over the metope, but the soffit of the co

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