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Page 1: The Order of the Orders. Naming of parts of classical column and entablature, from John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1964.

The Order of the Orders

Page 2: The Order of the Orders. Naming of parts of classical column and entablature, from John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1964.

Naming of parts of classical column and entablature, from John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1964

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The Five Orders, from Serlio, Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura et Prospettiva, 1545

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Lion Gate, Mycenae,14th century BC

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The Greek Doric Order: The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 447-431BC

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Sir William Chambers, A Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759

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The Ionic Order:The Erectheum, Acropolis, Athens, 421-4-5BC

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The Corinthian Order: Temple of Apollo, Bassae, 5th century BC

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Acanthus mollis

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Personification of the Orders, from John Shute, The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, 1563

Doric: Hercules Ionic: Hera Corinthian: Aphrodite

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Semi-finished monolithic shafts abandoned in the cipollino quarries at Kylindri. Lengths range from 11.85 to 12.05 metres(from Mark Wilson Jones, Princples of Roman Architecture, Yale University Press, 2000)

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Unfinished column scored for fluting (Wilson Jones)

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Setting out flutes (Wilson Jones)

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The method described by Vitruvius for checking a flute

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Scratched template for entasis setting out, on north wall of Temple of Apollo at Didyma, ?3rd century BC. Vertical scale 1:16(Wilson Jones)

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Procedure for shaping and fluting monolithic column (conjectural diagram by Wilson Jones)

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Shaping entasis and flutes on column made of sections (Wilson Jones)

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The Coliseum, Rome, after 72AD

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Sta. Costanza, Rome, c.337-350

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The Carolingian ‘Renaissance’ (Emperor Charlemagne c.742-814): Abbey Gatehouse, Lorsch, c.790

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S. Miniato al Monte, Florence, 11th century and later

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S. Miniato al Monte, plan (from John Onians, Bearers of Meaning, Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence,

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Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1439-1501, Capitals and heads

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Antonio Sansovino, The Mint (left) and Library (right), Venice, 1537

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St Paul, Covent Garden, by Inigo Jones, 1630

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The Five Orders by Claude Perrault, from Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Ancients, 1683

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Personified entablatures, by J. F. Blondel, Cours d’Architecture, 1771-7

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St George, Bloomsbury, Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1716-31

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Frontispiece to Essai sur l’Architecture, 1753 by Marc-Antoine Laugier

The primitive hut as the origin of architecture

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James ‘Athenian’ Stuart (1713-88) Self-portrait drawing the Erectheum in 1751

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The Ionic Order of the Erectheum, engraving from Stuart & Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, Vol.II, 1789

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The Organ Loft, Chapel, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, by James Stuart, 1779

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St Pancras New Church, Euston Road, by H. & W.H. Inwood, 1819-22

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