How To Use Ionic order In A Sentence
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Despite their creativity - whether in modifying Egyptian and Near Eastern forms, or inventing the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture - Greek artists worked in established genres.
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These forms, which we may call form G, are exemplified in literature by the forms of the sonnet or of tragedy with the “three unities” (place, time, and action); in music, the forms of the fugue or sonata; in architecture, the peripteros (“array of columns”) or the Ionic order; the bosquet form in Italian and French gardening; the zwiebelmuster (“onion pattern”) design in Saxon por - celain.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829
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A very important element of the architectural composition of the temple is the marble doorframe, of ionic order, with rich relief decoration referring to the Ionic door frame of the Erechtheion.
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The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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Having meanwhile given his attention to architecture, he began the first cloister of the Monastery of Cestello, and executed that part of it that is seen to be of the Ionic Order; placing capitals on the columns with volutes curving downwards to the collarino, where the shaft of the column ends, and making, below the ovoli and the fusarole, a frieze, one-third in height of the diameter of the column.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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The Ionic Order is quite similar to the Doric; it consists of the three steps, stereobate and stylobate.
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Rather than the simple Greek Ionic order of the two earlier capitols, Nichols used a more elaborate Ionic variation for the colossal freestanding hexastyle portico that dominated the west or main front.
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B.C., is a tetrastyle prostyle pseudoperipteral temple with a high _podium_ or base, a typical Etruscan cella, and a deep porch, now walled up, but thoroughly Greek in the elegant details of its Ionic order (Fig. 51).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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The Chapel is of the Greek Revival style with a tetrastyle portico in the Ionic Order.
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He saw the distance between the columns as an integral part of each order, with for instance two and a quarter column diameters serving as the intercolumniation for the Ionic order, and two for the Corinthian.
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All the other parts, such as tympana and the simae of the corona, are to be constructed as described above in the case of the Ionic order.
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