De architectura, 5.9.2

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose See all items with this value
Century Range
1st century BCE See all items with this value
Location of Display
Rome See all items with this value
Author
Vitruvius See all items with this value
Reference
De architectura, 5.9.2
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
Quae videntur ita oportere conlocari, uti duplices sint habeantque exteriores columnas doricas cum epistyliis et ornamentis ex ratione modulationis perfectas.
Part of Speech
Noun (plural) See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Public Space See all items with this value
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
Columns and entablatures in colonnades adjoining theatres
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
The ornaments of columns and entablatures: their architraves
frieze (figural relief sculpture) or metopes (figural) and triglyphs (non-figural)
cornice, and their subsidiary carved element or spaces
Notes
cp. De architectura, 4.2.1
Item Identifier
A00200
Determination
Derived directly from text
Item sets
Vitruvius
1st century BCE
Architecture (Ornamented)
Sculpture (Ornamenting)
Architectural Element
Public Space
Architecture (Ornamenting)
Architectural Element
Relief
Relief- Ornamenting - Definite