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COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE.
columns would meet if prolonged at a distance of over a
mile above the horizon).
“ Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone.”
Emerson.
THE IONIC ORDER
(No. 23) is of a lighter character and more ornate than the
Doric. It was principally used by the Greeks in Ionia, Asia
Minor, hence its name; and is probably founded on the
wooden types of the Euphrates Valley. The shafts are fluted
with twenty-four flutes, separated by fillets. The column has
a base. The height of the column is generally about nine
diameters; it has a distinctive capital of spiral-shaped scrolls
probably from an Asiatic prototype as exemplified at Perse-
polis (No. 13). The form has also been traced to the early
Mycenean jewellery; either origin would be sufficient to
account for its adoption in the later period.1
The method of striking volutes is a geometrical process
easily acquired, and given in all books of the orders.
The entablature is \ of the column in height, and
consists of:
Architrave: in faces.
Frieze: sometimes plain, but often with sculpture, or
carving of continuous frieze-like character.
Cornice : with no mutules, but with characteristic dentil
ornament, and sometimes also with the egg and dart.
N.B.—The Doric order provides a setting for sculptor’s
work. The Ionic incorporates it with the order itself,
usually in theform ofcarved enrichmentsonitsmain lines.
The most numerous Remains of the Ionic order are
found in Asia Minor, while the Doric examples are chiefly in
Greece and Sicily. We may mention as examples of the Ionic:
The Temple on the Ilissus (b.c. 484), destroyed by
the Turks in 1780.
The Temple of Nike-Apteros(“Wingless Victory”)
(b.c. 469).
The six internal columns of the Propylaea at Athens
(b.c. 432).
1 For an interesting paper on the origin of the Ionic Volute, see
R.I.B.A. Journal, 19 Dec., 1895.
COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE.
columns would meet if prolonged at a distance of over a
mile above the horizon).
“ Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem upon her zone.”
Emerson.
THE IONIC ORDER
(No. 23) is of a lighter character and more ornate than the
Doric. It was principally used by the Greeks in Ionia, Asia
Minor, hence its name; and is probably founded on the
wooden types of the Euphrates Valley. The shafts are fluted
with twenty-four flutes, separated by fillets. The column has
a base. The height of the column is generally about nine
diameters; it has a distinctive capital of spiral-shaped scrolls
probably from an Asiatic prototype as exemplified at Perse-
polis (No. 13). The form has also been traced to the early
Mycenean jewellery; either origin would be sufficient to
account for its adoption in the later period.1
The method of striking volutes is a geometrical process
easily acquired, and given in all books of the orders.
The entablature is \ of the column in height, and
consists of:
Architrave: in faces.
Frieze: sometimes plain, but often with sculpture, or
carving of continuous frieze-like character.
Cornice : with no mutules, but with characteristic dentil
ornament, and sometimes also with the egg and dart.
N.B.—The Doric order provides a setting for sculptor’s
work. The Ionic incorporates it with the order itself,
usually in theform ofcarved enrichmentsonitsmain lines.
The most numerous Remains of the Ionic order are
found in Asia Minor, while the Doric examples are chiefly in
Greece and Sicily. We may mention as examples of the Ionic:
The Temple on the Ilissus (b.c. 484), destroyed by
the Turks in 1780.
The Temple of Nike-Apteros(“Wingless Victory”)
(b.c. 469).
The six internal columns of the Propylaea at Athens
(b.c. 432).
1 For an interesting paper on the origin of the Ionic Volute, see
R.I.B.A. Journal, 19 Dec., 1895.