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A STUDY ON PHILIBERT DE L'ORME'S THEORY OF THE ORDERS : Inventions of Divines proportions and Colonnes francaises

1995; Architectural Institute of Japan; Volume: 60; Issue: 468 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3130/aija.60.181_2

1881-8161

Takahiro TAJI,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Taking up De L'Orme's theory of the orders in Le Premier Tome de I'Architecture , I try to understand the process of De L'Orme's thinking which leads to new inventions of divines proportions and colonnes franfaises. De L'Orme measured Roman antiquities at site many times over. However he didn't discover rules of measurements or proportions. Nor he knew any perfect theory from Vitruvius. Therefore he asked for divines proportions as perfect norms which are found in Bible. But these weren't systematic rules. Finally, ban esprit, which is cultivated by gazing at antiquities, can properly decide measurements and proportions, and invent new styles of columns, on the basis of wide knowledge of Roman antiquities and rich experience of construction.