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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of five classical architectural orders: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The Tuscan order is a simplified version of the Doric, with an unadorned column and capital. The Doric has a squat column with 20 shallow flutes and a capital with a neck and square abacus. It is characterized by triglyphs and metopes in the frieze. The Ionic order has more fluted columns and volutes on the capital. The Corinthian order has a striking capital carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls. The Composite order combines Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves on its capital.

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of five classical architectural orders: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The Tuscan order is a simplified version of the Doric, with an unadorned column and capital. The Doric has a squat column with 20 shallow flutes and a capital with a neck and square abacus. It is characterized by triglyphs and metopes in the frieze. The Ionic order has more fluted columns and volutes on the capital. The Corinthian order has a striking capital carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls. The Composite order combines Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves on its capital.

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of five classical architectural orders: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The Tuscan order is a simplified version of the Doric, with an unadorned column and capital. The Doric has a squat column with 20 shallow flutes and a capital with a neck and square abacus. It is characterized by triglyphs and metopes in the frieze. The Ionic order has more fluted columns and volutes on the capital. The Corinthian order has a striking capital carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls. The Composite order combines Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves on its capital.

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    5 ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE

    BY: LAWRENCE L. CONANAN


    TUSCAN

    The TUSCAN ORDER is a Roman adaption of the Doric. The Tuscan has an


    unfluted shaft and a simple echinus-abacus capital. It is similar in
    proportion and profile to the Roman Doric but is much plainer. The column
    is seven diameters high. This order is the most solid in appearance of all
    the orders.
    In its simplicity, the Tuscan order is seen as similar to the Doric order, and
    yet in its overall proportions, intercolumniation and simpler entablature, it
    follows the ratios of the Ionic. This strong order was considered most
    appropriate in military architecture and in docks and warehouses when
    they were dignified by architectural treatment. Serlio found it "suitable to
    fortified places, such as city gates, fortresses, castles, treasuries, or where
    artillery and ammunition are kept, prisons, seaports and other similar
    structures used in war."
     
    TUSCAN
    DORIC

    The DORIC ORDER is characterized by a slightly tapered column that is the


    most squat of all the orders, measuring in height (including the capital) only
    about four to eight lower diameters. The Greek forms of the Doric order
    have no individual base and instead rest directly on the stylobate, although
    subsequent forms of Doric frequently were given a conventional plinth-and-
    torus base. The Doric shaft is channeled with 20 shallow flutes. The capital,
    as stated before, consists of a simple necking; a spreading, convex echinus;
    and a square abacus. The frieze section of the Doric entablature is
    distinctive. It is composed of projecting triglyphs (units each consisting of
    three vertical bands separated by grooves) that alternate with receding
    square panels, called metopes, that may be either plain or carved with
    sculptured reliefs. The Roman forms of the Doric order have smaller
    proportions and appear lighter and more graceful than their Greek
    counterparts.
    DORIC
    IONIC

    The Ionic order differs from the Doric in having more flutes on its shaft and
    in the scrolls, or volutes, that droop over the front and rear portions of the
    echinus in the capital. The echinus itself is carved with an egg-and-
    dart motif. The height of the entire Ionic order—column, base, capital, and
    entablature— is nine lower diameters. The base of the column has two tori
    (convex moldings) separated by a scotia. The shaft, which is eight lower
    diameters high, has 24 flutes. On the entablature, the architrave is usually
    made up of three stepped fasciae (bands). The frieze lacks the Doric triglyph
    and metope, and hence this area can hold a continuous band of
    carved ornament, such as figural groups.
    DORIC
    CORINTHIAN

    The Corinthian order is the most elegant of the five orders. Its distinguishing
    characteristic is the striking capital, which is carved with two staggered rows
    of stylized acanthus leaves and four scrolls. The shaft has 24 sharp-edged
    flutes, while the column is 10 diameters high.
    COMPOSITE

    The Composite order, which was not ranked as a separate order until


    the Renaissance, is a late Roman development of the Corinthian. It is called
    Composite because its capital is composed of Ionic volutes and Corinthian
    acanthus-leaf decoration. The column is 10 diameters high.
    DORIC

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