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OF THE TEMPLE OF PEACE AT ROME. 
front, whereas there is a band' as broad as the rib of the wall, adorned
with a foliage bordered by 
guilloches, as is to be feen at large in the plate following., He makes the
height from the area of 
the temple to the architrave, that is, the height of the column with the
bafe and capital; too f all 
by one foot fix inches ; the bafe of the columns too high by three fourths
of an inch, the fhaft of 
the column too low by one foot five inches and a half; the diameter of the
bottom of the column 
too great by one inch one twelfth; and the entablature too low by nine inches
and a half. The 
height from the area of the temple to the key of the vaults of the chapels
is too fmall by feven feet 
three inches and a half; the arches that communicate between the chapels
as well as the under-part 
of the key in the vault of the porch,. are each too high by one foot five
inches; a-d the other arches 
of the chapels too low by a foot. 
Serlio puts in his plan niches at the ends of the porch; inflead of the arches
there: in the cir- 
cular part of the middle chapels, he puts only three niches, like Palladio.
 As for his meafures, I 
find according to that he gives of half an arm,, with which he fays he meafured
every thing, that 
the porch, as he marks it, between the walls, is too fhort, by eight feet
ten inches and a half; and 
too narrow by four inches two thirds.  He makes the walls of this porch,
the reverfe of Palladio, 
too, thick by an inch and a half, and gives but one ,meafure for the width
of all the arches' of the 
porch; which compared with the middle one, proves too great by feven feet
fix inches three fourths ; 
compared with the arches by which we enter the chapels; is too great by five
inches three fourths ; 
and compared with the other arches, is alfo too great by eight feet five
inches one fourth. He makes 
the temple within the walls too fhort by ten feet, and too narrow, by four
feet feven inches two 
thirds; the nave too narrow by two feet one inch two thirds; the diameter
of the columns too 
great by fix inches one twelfth; the outer wall on the flank of the temple
too thick by two feet, the 
chapels too narrow by fix feet; its elevation fill lefs jufi; but he declares
indeed that he has drawn 
it only by the eye. 
H E fecond phte contains the bafe with part of the fhaft of the column, the
entablature, and 
the compartments of the vaults: the column has twenty-four flutings, which
are fix parts 
broad and three parts three eighths deep; the breadth of the rib is one part
five fixths; between 
the orl at the bottom of the column and the upper torus of the bafe, is an
afiragal: the top-fillet 
of the fcotia has great projecion. 
In the entablature, it is to be obferved, among other things, that'the two
firft faces of the archi- 
trave are almoft alike; that on the cornice are modilions in place of the
corona, which fupport the 
fillet under the great cymatium; that between the modilions are rofes applied
on the plain of the 
foffit without either cafes or deepeninigs. 
Palladio makes the fecond face' of the architrave much greater than the firf;
on the friezelhe 
puts a curve at the bottom, which joins it to the lift at the top of the
architrave; in the cornice he 
makes not the dentils as they are; he puts a pine-apple on the returning
angle; he omits the fillet 
between the band of the modilions and the quarter-round; he gives the modilions
the ufual volutes, 
which they have not.  On the foffit between the modilions, he puts the rofes
in deepenings; he 
makes the bafe of the column too high by one part three quarters, the plinth
by,'one part one 
twentieth; the torufes and upper orl each alfo by the fixth of a part ; the
fcotia too low by the -fifth 
of a part; the architrave too low by one part five twelfths; the firft band
by one part one fixth; 
the aitragal. over it by one third of a part, the lif at the top alfo by
one part nineteen twenty- 
fourths; the ogee between the bands too high by three eighths of a, part,
and the upper band by thir- 
teen twenty-fourths of a part.  He makes the quarter-round and hollow over
it each too high by 
five twelfths of a part; the frieze too low by fourteen parts five fixths,
and the cornice'by one 
part one fixth ; the ogee at the bottom of the cornice too low-by one part:
the band of the modi- 
lions with the fillet which he tranfpofes, are together too low by one part
one fixth; and the top- 
lift by one part one twenty-fourth; he makes the quarter-round under the
dentils too high by one 
par one fourth, and the band, of dentils by one part one twenty-fourth; his
cornice projects too 
much by three parts one eighth : 'neither has each moulding its true proje&ion.
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