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V. Composite order (compound of Corinthian and Ionic) : Vitruvius has not given any instructions on this order. Gwilt (*Encycl.*, art. 2596) gives Palladio’s details of this order. ‘To the pedestal’s height this master assigns 3 diameters and three-eighths of the column adding to it a lower plinth of the height of half a diameter. He makes the base of the column half a diameter in height and assigns to the shaft eight diameters and a little more than one-fourth, and cuts it into twenty-four flutes. The height of this capital is one diameter and a sixth . . . The architrave, frieze and cornice he makes a little less than a fifth part of the height of the column. The whole height of his profile in our measures is thirteen modules and twelve parts.’