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The Orders of Greek Architecture
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
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Doric
DESCRIPTION:Ofthethreecolumns foundin Greece,Doriccolumnsarethesimplest. Theyhaveacapital(thetop,orcrown)madeofacircletopped byasquare. Theshaft(thetall
partofthecolumn)isplainandhas 20 sides. Thereisnobase intheDoricorder. TheDoricorderisveryplain, butpowerful-lookinginitsdesign.Doric,likemost Greekstyles,workswellhorizontallyon buildings,that'swhyitwassogoodwiththelongrectangularbuildingsmade bythe Greeks. Theareaabovethecolumn,calledthefrieze [pronounced "freeze"],hadsimple
patterns. Abovethecolumnsarethemetopesandtriglyphs. Themetope [pronounced "met-o-pee"] isaplain,smoothstonesection betweentriglyphs. Sometimesthemetopeshadstatuesofheroesorgodsonthem. Thetriglyphs areapatternof 3verticallines betweenthemetopes.
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TherearemanyexamplesofancientDoric buildings.PerhapsthemostfamousoneistheParthenon in Athens,whichisprobablythemost famousandmost
studied buildingonEarth. Buildings builtevennow borrowsomepartsoftheDoricorder.
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Ionic
DESCRIPTION:Ionicshafts weretallerthanDoricones. Thismakesthecolumnslookslender. Theyalsohadflutes,whicharelinescarvedintothem fromtopto bottom. Theshaftsalsohada
specialcharacteristic: entasis,whichisalittle bulgeinthecolumnsmakethecolumnslookstraight,evenatadistance[becausesinceyouwouldseethe building fromeyelevel,theshaftswouldappeartogetnarrowerastheyrise,sothis bulgemakesup forthat- soitlooksstraighttoyoureye butitreallyisn't !] . Thefrieze isplain. Thebases werelargeandlookedlike
asetofstackedrings.Ioniccapitals consistofascrollsabovetheshaft. TheIonicstyleisalittlemoredecorativethantheDoric.
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The Temple of Athena
Nike in Athens, shown
here, is one of the most
famous Ionic buildingsin the world. It is
located on the
Acropolis, very close to
the Parthenon
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Corinthian
DESCRIPTION:TheCorinthianorderisthemostdecorativeandisusuallytheonemost
modernpeoplelike best.Corinthianalsousesentasis tomaketheshaftslookstraight. TheCorinthiancapitals have flowersandleavesbelowasmallscroll. Theshafthas flutesand
the baseisliketheIonian. UnliketheDoricandIoniancornices,whichareataslant,theCorinthianroofsare flat.
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The Temple of the Sybil
in Rome is a good
example of the
Corinthian order. TheRomans used the
Corinthian order much
more than did the
Greeks.