CIZONA (from the Latin) a membe• of the cornice, with a broad vertical thee, and a hold projection. The solid, out of which it is (Lrmed, is generally reeessed upwards from its soffit ; hence the Italians call itdgt.ceio/ut;os and logrinintio8, the french, /arc/tier. and the English workmen, drip, from the circumstance of its discharging tho rain-water in drops from its edge, and by this means sheltering the subordinate, parts below.
The corona is one of the principal members of the cornice, and that which marks its distinctive eharaoter, by the masske shadow which it mrocneeS on the plain surf:tee of the frieze. This member, from being the principal feature ..f the cornice. ought never to he omitted.
Grecian antiquity affords no instances of an order without a corona ; nor, indeed. are there many examples among the Romans.
There is nothing in architecture better supported by reason, :111.1 by the general example of antiquity. than the neeess••y use corona. It Ipnvever, omitted in the temi le of Peace at 1 ones the third of the Coliseum, the arch of Lyons, at Verona. It is singular, that in the arch of Con
stantine, the cornice finishes with the corona. surmounted a fillet only: and in several other examples the corona ha, almost dwindled into a mere fillet. The •rontispicee of Nero presents one of the 1),,Idest coronas of all the Roman works, being very nearly 16 minutes in height ; the three columns in the Campo is another eVaMple of all elegant and hold •Or011a. 111 the temples and Theseus, at Athens. it is divided into two faces. The term coromt is sometimes applied by Vitruvins to the whole cot Mee, the wold originally signifying a crow)].
..a/uN A LUCIS. a kind of chandelier anciently employ ed in churches. of beautiful and appropriate design, and adnCt ting of delicate elaboration.
CoUoSTR(1TA. :ac'c'ording to Pliny, a kind of inlaid work.
('ORPS, (from the ]French) any part that projects or ad vances beyond the naked of the wall, to be used as a ground for some decoration.