How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions
Jane Griswold Radocchia
MAY 3, 2024
In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* The diagram shows the actual twine held tight at Points A and B. Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. I began my diagram here on the lower edge of the pediment's frame.
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