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| | Corinthian order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Corinthian order is one of the Classical orders of Greek and Roman architecture, although it was seldom used in Greek architecture. |
 | | The Corinthian order was said to have been invented by an architect, Callimachus, who was inspired by the sight of a votive basket that had been left on the grave of a young girl. |
 | | The mid-16th century Italians, especially Sebastiano Serlio and Vignola, who established a canonic version of the orders, thought they detected a "Composite order," combining the volutes of the Ionic with the foliage of the Corinthian, but in Roman practice volutes were almost always present. |
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