Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ............................. Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Order

Architecture

In classical architecture, a column with base, shaft (except for Doric style), capital, and entablature, decorated and proportioned according to one of the accepted modes - Doric , Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, or Composite

See Chapter 1 - The Origins of the Three Orders in Vitruvius Pollio, "The Ten Books on Architecture"

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Palladio's Drawings of the Five Classical Orders

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Furniture

Used in furniture, also

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Illustration above: Birge Memorial - Doric order

Other examples:

• Doric Temple at Segesta, Sicily