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Title: The Architectural magazine
Year: 1834 (1830s)
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Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
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east, to prevent himfrom committing gross absurdities. An artist, however greatmav be his taste or his genius, who cannot test his own worksor those of others by the principles of sound criticism; whocannot turn his mind in upon itself, and analyse the feelings andemotions which give rise to the productions of his pen or hispencil, will be in contmual danger of committing some error orabsurdity, which persons wholly without genius, and even farinferior in abilities to himself, may detect, in consequence oftheir knowledge of principles, and their power of analysing whatpasses in their own minds. Hence it happens, in the presentstate of the education of artists, that a just and correct taste issafer than a brilliant genius. Having, in this article, brought to a conclusion our outline ofthose principles which are common to all the Fine Arts, weshall next commence a series of papers on the principles moreespecially applicable to Architecture. B B 2 3.56 licmarkabJe CorintJiian Capital.184
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_i 1 1 1- c. . I I L. 11 in. Scale of original, Sin. to 1 ft,a a. Abacus; b b, horns ; c c, rosettes; tt d, lip of vase; c c, upper diameter of column. Mode of securing Outside Shutters. 357 Art. II. Notice of a remarTiahle Corinthian Capital in the Vatican.By G. WiGHTWiCK, Esq., Architect. It was my chief occupation, while a student at Rome, to gleanwhatever architectural rarities I could find in the callerv ofthe Vatican ; and I have now by me many drawings, from exqui-site examples of the antique, for the first time (I believe) geome-.trically delineated to accurate measurement. Tliey consist ofvases, altars, candelabra, two very curious marble chairs, and aremarkable Corinthian capital, the plan and elevation of which(^fig. IS-t.) are herewith forwarded for your publication, shouldyou coincide in my opinion of its worth. You will observe that its chief peculiarity consists in the squareabacus, and the omission of the volutes. The horns curve in-ward, as usual; but, instead of the

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