Normand's Parallel of the Orders of Architecture: Greek, Roman and Renaissance

72 pp. "Normand's Parallel of the Orders of Architecture is unusual in this class of publication in that it includes not only a fully representative selection of those standardised versions of the respective orders evolved by certain celebrated "modern" masters of Italian or French Renaissance architecture, but also a fine series of measured drawings, derived from the actual monuments of Greek or Roman antiquity still surviving. As the "Orders" composed by the Renaissance writers were based on these very structures, we are consequently afforded a means of critical comparison as well as a wide opportunity for discrimination in the selection of proportions and details appealing to our individual taste. But we my only do justice to this excellent collection of drawings by an appreciation of the circumstances which attended the growth of the orders and a realisation of their underlying significance."