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Definition: Ionic from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

In classical architecture, one of the five types of column; see order.

Ionic order

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(īŏn'ĭk), one of the early orders of architecture . The spreading scroll-shaped capital is the distinctive feature of the Ionic order; it was primarily a product of Asia Minor, where early embryonic forms of this capital have been found. In the Ionian colonies of Greece on the southwestern shores of Asia Minor, the Ionic order had attained a full development in the 6th cent. B.C. In the 5th cent. B.C. it appeared in Greece proper, where the Erechtheum embodies the one really complete example. Greek Ionic columns are of slender proportion, their height being generally about nine times the column's lower diameter; the order is always used with a base. A column shaft with 24 flutings seems to have been the most developed form. The spiral scrolls, or volutes, at either side of the cap run from front to rear, and an echinus molding with egg-and-dart ornamentation occupies the space between them. The entablature, usually about one quarter the height of the column, has an architrave generally…
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Full text Article Ionic order

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(īŏn'ĭk), one of the early orders of architecture . The spreading scroll-shaped capital is the distinctive feature of the Ionic order; it was primarily a product of Asia Minor, where early embryonic forms of this capital have been found. In the Ionian colonies of Greece on the southwestern shores of…
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Full text Article Ionic order

From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
Ionic order Ionic order capital Alan Witschonke AW
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From Dictionary of Architecture and Construction
Ionic order: above, capital; below, base
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Full text Article Dorian and Doric

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Pertaining to Doris, a district of ancient Greece, or to the Doric or Dorian people, one of the four main sub-groups of the ancient Greeks, the others being the Aeolians, the Ionians and the Achaeans. The Dorians maintained some of the characteristics of a simple-living, pastoral people, and they…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
One of the Greek orders of architecture , so called from ionia , where it originated. Its columns are fluted, and its capitals are decorated with volutes (scroll-like ornaments), which are its characteristic feature. See also corinthian order ; doric order ; …
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From Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
From the seventh century onward three major...
The ancient Greeks bequeathed a tremendous legacy to subsequent centuries of Western civilization in their architecture. The three “orders” that developed between the 600s and 300s BCE remain central to architectural design even today and can be seen on the exteriors of such modern neoclassical…
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Full text Article orders of architecture

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
orders of architecture
A system devised by the Roman architectural historian Vitruvius (1st c.   BC ) to categorize the various types of classical architecture. He bases his system on three standard types of column , together with their bases , plinths , capitals and entablature . The Doric order is the oldest, plainest…
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Full text Article Corinth or Corinthian

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The loose living of Corinth was proverbial both in Greece and Rome. Hence, in the regency period in England the term Corinthian was applied to a hard-living group of sportsmen devoted to pugilism and horse-racing. The sporting rake in Pierce Egan's Life in London (1821) was known as ‘Corinthian…
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Full text Article Corinthian order

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
most ornate of the classic orders of architecture. It was also the latest, not arriving at full development until the middle of the 4th cent. B.C. The oldest known example, however, is found in the temple of Apollo at Bassae (c.420 B.C. ). The Greeks made little use of the order; the chief example…
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