This document discusses different types of supports used in architecture and design. It describes pillars, balustrades, table legs, and other structures used to bear weight. Specific examples mentioned include small pillars with thick forms used to support rails, and baluster pillars resembling the legs of modern furniture. The document also discusses the use of human and plant forms as inspiration for supports, such as atlantes using male forms and caryatids using female forms. The foliated shaft is highlighted, with examples shown of slender, leaf-like supports from Pompeii and bronze candelabras imitating plant stems from antiquity.
This document discusses different types of supports used in architecture and design. It describes pillars, balustrades, table legs, and other structures used to bear weight. Specific examples mentioned include small pillars with thick forms used to support rails, and baluster pillars resembling the legs of modern furniture. The document also discusses the use of human and plant forms as inspiration for supports, such as atlantes using male forms and caryatids using female forms. The foliated shaft is highlighted, with examples shown of slender, leaf-like supports from Pompeii and bronze candelabras imitating plant stems from antiquity.
This document discusses different types of supports used in architecture and design. It describes pillars, balustrades, table legs, and other structures used to bear weight. Specific examples mentioned include small pillars with thick forms used to support rails, and baluster pillars resembling the legs of modern furniture. The document also discusses the use of human and plant forms as inspiration for supports, such as atlantes using male forms and caryatids using female forms. The foliated shaft is highlighted, with examples shown of slender, leaf-like supports from Pompeii and bronze candelabras imitating plant stems from antiquity.
again, ls frequently composed of several distinct parts. The cande- labrum as a whole will receive a more detailed consideration in Division III, (Utensils). Small Pillars, shaped like a pier, column, or candelabrum, are also used for the construction of balaustrades; in which case they have to support only a Rail. The small Pillars have thick, compact forms; Balausters, on the contrary, are slender bodies of revolution, with great variety in the profile. Very peculiar forms of support are the antique Trapezophors or table-legs; the Legs of modern furniture bear more resemblance to balauster pillars. Terminus is the name given to supports which widen out in an upward direction like an inverted Obelisk, and terminate in a bust or capital. Beside the geometrical and plant elements, the human form is also used as a motive of supports. Male forms thus used are termed Atlantes; and female forms Caryatids. The various forms of Consoles are included in the group of Supports. The Foliated Shaft. (Plate 121.) We have already mentioned that the Plant-world furnishes the motive for the forms of Supports. Reeds, Canes, Tree-trunks with knots, &c., were copied in the Antique. The mural paintings of Pompeii show lofty airy constructions with extremely slender, foliated supports. The bronze Candelabra and Lampadaria, intended to hold lamps, are often direct imitations of plant stems, while the Roman State-Candelabra are often decorated with Artificial foliage. Later epochs have made little change in this respect; it may be said in general that, as regards delicacy of feeling, and moderation in the application of natural forms, they have seldom reached and still more seldom surpassed the Antique models. Plate 121. The Foliated Shaft. 1. Finial of the choragic monument of Lysikrates, Athens, (in- tended for the reception of a bronze tripod), Greek. 2. Part of the shaft of a Roman State -candelabrum, marble, Vatican museum, Rome. 3 4. Supports, mural paintings, Pompeii, (Jacobsthal). 5. Graeco-Italic, Lamp-stand, bronze. 6. Upper part of shaft, Graeco-Italic candelabrvun, Brondsted collec- tion, (Vulliamy). 13*