I have begun modeling the classical architecture described by Andrea Palladio in his _Four Books on Architecture_ with the inclination that having a detailed understanding of the classical rules of composition will help me to model real sites much more accurately. I have found some discrepancies between some of the diagrams and text in my copy of the books (English Translation by Isaac Ware – 1738) but intend to push through the material modeling the architecture, chapter-by-chapter, as accurately as possible. If anyone knows any facet of the material, ideas and critiques would be especially appreciated – especially proportional or geometric errors.

Here is a very simple model of a Tuscan column modeled in Rhino and rendered in POV-Ray.
I know it is not the most complex image, and is the easiest column, but I am just starting :-)

One discrepancy is between the description of the height of the column and one of the diagrams. Chap. XIV states that “the columns, with their base and capital, ought to be seven modules in height, and to be diminished at the top a fourth part of their thickness.” One module is the diameter of the column’s shaft near the base. However, in plate IX, located in the same chapter, the column is nine modules high including the base and capital. My column is also nine modules in height.