236 The Console.

used beneath mouldings, and in corners of doors between the jambs

and the lintel. The example on Plate 146. 11 may be taken as
representative of this kind of support. Another class of Supports
exhibits a central core', tapered downwards, like Pendauts with a
polygonal or round plan (Plate 147. 1 and 2). This latter form is
also used in Gothic ai*t as a Bracket for the Statues of the saints,
which were applied to piers and the arches of portals.
The Renascense remodels the last-named console in its own way,
but recui-s by preference to the Antique form (Plate 146.
3),
some-
times reversing the volutes (Plate 146.
1

2),
and giving the front
a richer and more independent ornamentation (Plate 146. 6). The
combination of several smaller consoles to form a Composite
-
con-
sole, is shown on Plate 146. fig. 5. Just as the Pendant-consoles
of the Gothic style imitate the calyx capital, so too does the Rena-
scense remodel the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian capitals for Consoles
(Plate 147.
4

6).
In wood architecture, we meet with Consoles
which have the form of richly-decorated struts (Plate 146.
4).
The Barocco style, which followed the Renascence, also made
essential additions to the richness of the forms. The strict line of
the volute is abandoned and frequently broken by straight lines
(Plate 146.
7
10).
The Console is shaped in front-view like a pen-
dant Ti'iangle, or typographical Tail-piece (Plate 147. 3 and
8).
An-
other invention of this period is the Triglyph-console (Plate 147.
7).
The Rococo period abandons the traditional standards, and sacri-
fices construction to picturesque license. Shell-work, and unsymme-
trical scrolls, serve as supports.
Itlodern art recasts the elements of former styles, without adding
anything essentially new, unless we regard as a novelty the custom
of placing busts, clocks, and knicknacks, on independent Consoles
which are used as Brackets.
Finally: we may mention that in almost every style, Consoles in
the various forms have been used as the Keystones of door and
window lintels, in which case they are, generally speaking, not
Supports, as they have nothing to support.
It should be considered inadmissible to apply distorted Consoles i. e.
those which have vertical sides though they are on the raking sofits
of pediments, as was done in the Late Roman period, and in imitation
thereof by the Renascence in some examples.
Examples, of all periods, will be found in Raguenet's work; and
an exhaustive essay on the Console by Dr. P. F. Krell in the Ge-
werbehalle, 1870, No. 10.
Plate 145. The Console.
1
2. Front and side view, Greek, North door, Erechtheum, Athens.
8
4. Front and side view, Roman, Vatican.