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	Archaeology Wordsmith
		The term, in anthropology, refers to the spread of certain levels of cultural development and, in geology, the layers of natural features in a region; in soil science a horizon is a layer formed in a soil profile by soil-forming processes.
		The style involves the pecking on rock surfaces by indirect percussion of clusters of hundreds of small figures, usually about 10 cm tall, in outline or infilled forms.
		The origin of the style can be traced to the Mesolithic art of northern Europe, where the earliest examples were found on fragments of bone in southern France dating from the late Magdalenian.
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	Greek Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta
		The oldest well-preserved Doric temple is the Temple of Hera at Olympia (590?
		Whereas at first Doric columns were only about four times as high as their width at the base, by 450 bc the columns were about five and a half or six times as high as their width at the base.
		Athenians used both Doric and Ionic styles in many of their buildings, possibly because although Athens was in mainland Greece, where the Doric order was more prevalent, Athenians had settled Ionia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561691_3/ancient_Greek_sculpture.html (2412 words)

	GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE
		Doric columns, which had no bases and whose capitals consisted of a square slab over a round cushion shape, were heavy and closely spaced to support the weight of the masonry.
		The Doric style originated on the mainland and became widespread.
		Sepulchral monuments imitated the sumptuous style of the Mausoleum.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..gr088000.a#FWNE.fw..gr088000.a (5415 words)

	Vocabulary
		Doric Column: Used in classical architecture, it is a column with a base (usually), shaft, capital and entablature, decorated and proportioned according to accepted modes.
		The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work, in the Parthenon, groups of centaurs and heroes in high relief occupy the metopes.
		An ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having on its face two parallel vertical glyphs or grooves and two half grooves or chamfers on either vertical end, that separates the metopes.
	members.tripod.com /stacimartin_1/Vocabulary.htm (338 words)

	fungitecture doric
		Those built in the Doric style are generally distinguished by their facades consisting of Doric columns, a row of alternating trigluph (thrice-carved) and metope (in-between) panels installed all round the temple above the columns, and a gable roof whose ends were framed into a triangular pediment often adorned with sculpture.
		Hence, the configuration of a Doric temple is not unlike a fairy ring of mushrooms, where Mother Mushroom is completely surrounded and physically supported by her offspring, as represented by the cage of Doric columns.
		The gable ends of the older Doric temples were often crowned with painted terracotta acroteria, that were usually shaped as the greater sector of a circle and decorated in radial fashion not unlike the gills radiating from the central stipe of a mushroom.
	home.iprimus.com.au /o8ty/doric-style.htm (835 words)

	Greek Architecture - Crystalinks
		These styles are best known through the three orders of column capitals, but there are differences in most points of design and decoration between the orders.
		The Ionic style was used in the cities of Ionia (now the west coast of Turkey) and some of the Aegean islands.
		In the Roman Doric mode, columns are not invariably fluted.
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	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Architectural style -
		Federal style[?] - (or Neoclassical architecture[?]) An American style exemplified by classical ornamentation and smooth sweeping surfaces, for example Monticello by Thomas Jefferson late 1700s early 1800s.
		Art nouveau - (or Eclectic and revival styles[?]) - An 1890s style in architecture, graphic arts, and interior design characterized by writhing forms, curving lines, and asymmetrical organization.
		Art Deco - A 1920s style characterized by setbacks, zigzag forms influenced by Egyptian art, and use of chrome and plastic ornamentation.
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	Community & Economic Development - Architectural Styles and Types
		This style is more common in Rock Island and is characterized by two or three stories, low pitched hip or center gable roof with widely overhanging eaves supported by large brackets, visually balanced facades, decorative bracketed hoods or lintels over windows and doors, and narrow single or double pane, double hung windows and double doors.
		This is a common architectural style characterized by irregularity of plan and massing, variety of color and texture, variety of window treatment, multiple steep roofs, porches with decorative gables, frequent use of bay windows, chimneys that incorporate molded brick or corbelling, and wall surfaces that vary in texture and material used.
		This style of architecture is actually a medieval revival and is characterized by a steeply pitched, end or cross gable roof; gabled entryway; multi-paned, narrow windows; tall chimneys; masonry construction and decorative half-timbering on the upper walls or gables of the structure.
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		And the fluting of the Doric column is reminiscent of the grooves that the long strokes of the adze would make as the woodworker cut away the bark of a tree trunk before erecting it as the column.
		Doric style, at its height, also added a series of optical corrections to ensure that the human eye, easily misled by the effect of light and shade in alternation, saw the whole as an apparent pattern of truly horizontal and vertical lines.
		The later architects dared to use a wider space, enough for three triglyphs between columns; used a base for their columns, whereas a Greek Doric column rests directly on the stylobate; economized by omitting the fluting in the lower part of a column; and reduced the size of the capital.
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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture (E) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In architecture, echinus refers to the rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
		The term is also applied to the quarter- round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style and sometimes to the egg and anchor or egg and dart moulding, because that ornament is often identified with the Roman Doric capital.
		The entablature is composed of three parts - the architrave, a stone or marble slab, the prototype of which was the square timber beam of the primitive structure; the frieze or middle member, subdivided into its minor parts; and the cornice, which, with its mouldings and ornaments, is the superior projection of the structure.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /T4.HTM (705 words)

	Doric - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Orders of Architecture, the five classic styles of column, whose proportions and component parts were established in antiquity and elaborated during...
		Two orders of architecture, or styles of columns, the Doric and the Ionic, developed.
		Doric columns, which had no base and whose capitals consisted...
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	Pen World International Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The style is commonly referred to as the “Equipoised” pen, and it was basically a tapered version of the Art Deco.
		The Doric style was so far ahead of its time that even by today’s fountain pen standards, it is futuristic.
		The elegant ladies’ pen and pencil are characterized by a Doric style ribbon ring and often include a flush gold-filled panel for the engraving of initials.
	www.penworld.com /articles.php?article_id=69 (2164 words)

	Olympia - Pathways to Ancient Myth
		Standing on a platform, the temple is in the Doric peripteral style (six columns by thirteen columns), with impressively decorated pediments.
		The temple was built between 470 BC and 456 BC and was paid for from the spoils of war won by the Eleians from Pisa.
		The cella was lined with two colonnades of seven Doric columns, which supported a second tier, forming a gallery from which pilgrims could get a better view of the great statue of Zeus.
	www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/pathways/olympia/oalt2.htm (230 words)

	Doric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Doric order was developed in the lands occupied by the Dorians, one of the two principal divisions of the Greek race.
		It became the preferred style of the Greek mainland and the western colonies (southern Italy and Sicily).
		In the Roman Doric order, the columns are more slender, usually have bases, and the fluting is sometimes altered or omitted.
	ah.bfn.org /a/DCTNRY/d/doric.html (185 words)

	Zoho Writer Documents - wavecrash_17
		These names were used by the Greeks themselves, and reflected their belief that the styles descended from the Dorian and Ionian Greeks of the Dark Ages, but this is unlikely to be true.
		The Tuscan is the Doric in its earliest state, and the Composite is the Corinthian, enriched with the Ionic.
		Authorities such as Christopher Wren lent their aid in deprecating the old mediæval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing that was barbarous and rude.
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	Greek - Roman Theatre Glossary
		Doric order (simple, smooth, round) developed on the Greek mainland and in southern Italy and Sicily by 7th century BC.
		Above the capital is the architrave consisting of an unadorned beam supporting a frieze of alternating triglyphs (vertical, weight supporting blocks with three vertical grooves) and metopes (non-load bearing panels either decorated with relief sculpture or left plain).
		Architectural style presumably developed in Ionia and on some of the Greek islands by the 6th century BC.
	www.whitman.edu /theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary.htm (2305 words)

	SparkNotes: Greek Art and Architecture: Timeline
		The earliest Doric temples were built during this time, and vase-painting and fl-figure abound.
		This style of vase-painting is characteristic of the Archaic period, which involves painting a scene's background red, while leaving the figures fl.
		Although Doric in style, there are a few Ionic elements of the building, including a continuous frieze around the inner colonnade.
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	Doric columns - AskTheBrain.com
		Entasis was used in Doric columns to overcome the optical illusion of hollowness that appears in a perfectly straight column.
		With its Doric columns on the front veranda and the wide steps leading from the ground up to the second floor main entrance, it is a wonderful example of Greek revival architecture.
		Their original columns were of Doric style on the first floor, and Ionic style on the second floor.
	www.askthebrain.com /column_doric-.html (336 words)

	Coliseum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This style of architecture is referred to as the Doric style post and lintel system.
		The facade of the structure is fronted by a row of Doric columns, called a colonnade, and recedes into the interior before one reaches the true entrance.
		The bronze sculptures were created in mimetic style much like the Hellenistic sculptures before them with one exception; even though Hellenistic figures were somewhat idealized, they usually did not exhibit the calm appearance that represented Humanism and Platonic Idealism of the classic Greek period.
	www.usi.edu /artdept/artinindiana/Architecture/Downtown/Coliseum/Colis.html (1082 words)

	Doric Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Doric style is rather sturdy and its top (the capital), is plain.
		This style was used in mainland Greece and the colonies in southern Italy and Sicily.
		The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC, and despite the enormous damage it has sustained over the centuries, it still communicates the ideals of order and harmony for which Greek architecture is known.
	www.stmarks.edu.hk /~sms05157/doric_order.htm (79 words)

	Arts - Architecture: Styles
		Of the three columns found in Greece, Doric columns are the most basic and undecorative, with a square and circular capital and a plain 20 sided shaft.
		Instead of the single scene carvings of the Doric style in the frieze, the Ionic had a continuous band of carvings.
		Unlike the Doric and Ionian roofs, which are at a slant, the Corinthian roofs are flat.
	www.archaeonia.com /arts/architecture/styles.htm (401 words)

	EDINBURGH - Online Information article about EDINBURGH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is in the Early Pointed style, by Sir Gilbert Scott, is 278 ft. long, and is surmounted by a spire 275 ft. high.
		Burns's monument, in the style of a Greek temple, occupies a prominent position on the Regent Road, on the southern brow of the lower terrace of Calton Hill.
		New College buildings, designed in the Pointed style of the 16th century, and erected on the site of the palace of Mary of Guise, occupy a prominent position at the head of the Mound.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EDINBURGH.html (9513 words)

	Tarbell : The Doric order
		It is greatest at about one third or one half the height of the shaft, and there amounts, in cases that have been measured, to from 1/80 to 1/140 of the lower diameter of the shaft.
		The breadth of its front face is slightly greater than the thickness of the wall; the breadth of a side face depends upon whether or not the anta supports an architrave on that side.
		Such are the main features of a Doric temple (those last mentioned not being peculiar to the Doric style).
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/history-of-ancient-greek-art-10.asp (1494 words)

	Historical Periods in Architecture
		The main feature of the Greek Doric is that it has no base and the height of the column in relationship to its diameter, the height of the column, including capital and base, is five and one-half diameters.
		This structure is a direct representation of the plateresque style of architecture, with its intricate columns and overall ornamentation.
		The present of eight keys themes drawn from the work of organic architects, with emphasis on the inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the geometric and the environmental challenges architects have to overcome.
	www.pwc.k12.nf.ca /academics/designtech2109/Asn1Solutions.htm (2091 words)

	Goa Beach Guide Maps ( Old Goa ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The exterior is half Tuscan and half Doric style and the interior Mosaic-Corinthian.
		The style is Baroque, though the central doorway is Manueline and the towers are octagonal.
		Housed in a silver casket in a richly adorned chapel are the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier, Goa’s patron saint.
	www.geocities.com /johnmap2001/goa/cities/old_goa.html (401 words)

	Parthenon: 448-432 BC
		The Parthenon had a style new to that era and it was impressive to the eye.
		It was built in the masculine Doric style with some Ionic elements.
		The Doric style provided the perfect look, which demonstrated the Athenian desire to be perfect god-like beings.
	www.thenagain.info /webchron/WestCiv/Parthenon.html (654 words)

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