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  Ionic order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ionic order originated in the mid-6th century BC in Ionia, the southwestern coastland and islands of Asia Minor settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dialect was spoken.
The capital of the Ionic column has characteristic paired scrolling volutes that are laid on the molded cap ("echinus") of the column, or spring from within it.
The major feature of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius [1].
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 Architecture of Ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Doric style was used in mainland Greece and spread from there to the Greek colonies in Italy.
The Ionic style was used in the cities of Ionia (now the west coast of Turkey) and some of the Aegean islands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Architecture_of_Ancient_Greece   (1284 words)

  
 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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 History Channel Search Results
In addition, he used Ionic columns, which are among the finest of this order, and reinforced the architraves of the building with iron bars.
An outstanding Ionic temple is the Erechtheum, built, perhaps by Mnesicles, on the Acropolis opposite the Parthenon.
Sepulchral monuments imitated the sumptuous style of the Mausoleum.
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 Greek Architecture - Crystalinks
Ionic, evolved in Ionia on the eastern shore of the Aegean Sea
Below the volutes, the Ionic column may have a wide collar or banding separating the capital from the fluted shaft.
The major feature of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.
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 Greek Architecture - Clipart ETC
Volute of the Ionic Capital "A kind of spiral scroll used in Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite capitals, of which it is a principal ornament.
In the Doric, which is the oldest style of Greek architecture, we must consider all the columns in the same row as having one common base, whereas in the Ionian and Corinthian each column has a seperate base, called spira.
Ionic Capital Ionic capital from the Erechtheion, Athens.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A style of Greek architecture that slightly differed from the Doric Style.
Ionic capitals consist of a scroll-like portion above a decorative shaft portion.
The style is a little more decorative in the capital, and instead of the single scene drawings of the Doric style in the frieze, the Ionic had a continuous band of drawings depicted.
oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/classics/students/Olsen/ionic.html   (57 words)

  
 Architecture in Archaic Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi, (Doric style), c.
Boardman: ‘style and architecture have suggested to some scholars a somewhat earlier date.
The temple employs equal interaxial spacing at the facades and flanks, and this measurement is used as a unit of measurement for the rest of the groundplan.
www.albany.edu /faculty/griggs/208/12/12.html   (750 words)

  
 Greek Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Doric style is kind of sturdy at the top and it usually plain.
This style was used in mainland Greece and in southern Italy and Sicily.
The Corinthian style is rarely used in the Greek world, but it is often seen in the Roman Temples.
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 Corinthian Order- Greek Architecture - History for Kids!
This is a Roman temple in the Corinthian style, at Nimes in southern France.
The Corinthian style is fancier and heavier than the Ionic style.
On the architrave, as in Ionic temples, there is a continuous frieze where the triglyphs and metopes would be on a Doric temple.
www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/architecture/corinthian.htm   (279 words)

  
 Archaeology Wordsmith
DEFINITION: The Grecian Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian and the Roman Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and composite orders as defined by the particular type of column and entablature in one basic unit.
The form of the capital is the most distinguishing characteristic of a particular order.
DEFINITION: Any of several styles of classical or Neoclassical architecture that are defined by the particular type of column and entablature they use as a basic unit.
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 Classical Orders of Architecture
Doric, like most Greek styles, works well horizontally on buildings, that's why it was so good with the long rectangular buildings made by the Greeks.
Ionic capitals consist of a scrolls above the shaft.
The Ionic style is a little more decorative than the Doric.
www.cmhpf.org /kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html   (608 words)

  
 Ancient Greece, history, museums.
The ancient Greek's architecture is marked by different styles: The Ionic Style, Doric style, Corinthian style.
The Ionic Style is an elegant one.,being used in the temple of Appolo at Didyma, Athena Nike and Elechtheum.
The temple of Oppollo at Bassae and the temple of Zeus are built in the Corinthian Style.
www.tours2greece.info /greece-travel/ancient_greece.php   (802 words)

  
 Ionic Columns,interior wood column,exterior columns wood rope column,fluted wood column,laminated wood column,round ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The distinguishing features of the Ionic Order are the scrolls that decorate the capital of the column.
The most common representations of the Ionic Order include columns with 24 flutes separated by fillets that are about one-third their width.
A prime example of the Ionic Order as it was used in Rome is the Temple of Fortuna Virilis.
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 Untitled Document
This style was used in mainland Greece and the colonies in southern Italy and Sicily.
This style was found in eastern Greece and the islands.
The eastern portico, hexastyle Ionic, gave access to the shrine of Athena, which was separated by a partition from the western cella.
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 Greek Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The capital style in this building is Ionic, the second style of the three main architectural orders of ancient Greece.
The capitals are in the Corinthian style, and the columns are in drum sections.
350 bce by the Roman architect Pytheos in the Ionic style.
www.accd.edu /sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/GreekA.htm   (378 words)

  
 Pugin's Contrasts -- St. Louis Public Library - Steedman Exhibit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Pugin's depiction of a Georgian style altar is severe in the extreme
The text of the book is his passionate indictment of the failings and inappropriate uses of the neo-classic style, and was Pugin's first salvo in a lifelong campaign championing the medieval forms of Britain's Catholic past.
The illustrations Pugin used were literally a series of contrasts; one image is of a building or object in the neo-classic style, in his mind depleted and inappropriate.
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 Ionic Order - Greek Architecture - History for Kids!
Around 500 BC, Greek architectural styles changed so that instead of building temples in the old Doric style, people began to want their new temples for the gods to be built in the new Ionic style.
Ionic temples are a little fancier and more delicate than Doric temples, without being as elaborate as Corinthian temples.
In Ionic temples, the columns have a small base to stand on, instead of sitting right on the floor.
www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/architecture/ionic.htm   (255 words)

  
 Ancient Greece
The Doric and Ionic orders were the most common, and the Corinthian order, while seen more in Roman architecture, was sometimes used also.
Each of them is from a different style and gives you a general idea of the characteristics of each style of achitecture.
The Ionic style was more elegant and thin with a curled top.
www.cedarville.edu /academics/education/resource/schools/chca/othergrades/greecetd/greece1.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Recon3D Vol.1
Elements are grouped in styles, and within a group you can find various configurations and variations of the objects.
We have also included elements which are only related to a specific style, but historically do not belong to it.
Disc C is dedicated to Corinthian Style, and is a wonderful addition to RECON3D(TM) Vol.1.
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 GREEKISLANDS.COM - ATHENS, THE CAPITAL OF GREECE
This is followed by the Opthalmialogical Hospital built in a Byzantine style and opposite that the Bank of Greece.
Apollon and Athena are on the two large Ionic columns.
Diagonally opposite the library is the Arsakeio where the Council of State is housed.
www.greekhotel.com /greekislands/athens/omonoia.htm   (438 words)

  
 Greek Revival Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This was first based on Roman models (Federal style), but archaeological investigation in the early 19th century emphasized Greece as the Mother of Rome which, in turn, shifted interest to Grecian models.
The style is an adaptation of the classic Greek temple front employing details of Doric, Ionic or Corinthian order
This style developed among the Ionians who had settled in Asia Minor in the 5C BC and was considered a feminine style.
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 IONIC Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Roman Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The fist and most basic type was called the Doric Style.
The Ionic Style, with its more decorative base and top, was the next type to be used.
It still had the same purpose as the Doric style but it futher increased the awe power of the building it was used with.
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 06400 - Architectural Woodwork (Turncraft)
Available with true architectural entasis in sizes and styles consistent with the classic proportions of the Greek Doric, Tuscan, Roman Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders - or custom turned to any specification and size up to 36 inches (914 mm) in diameter and 30 feet (9 mm) in height.
Poly-Classic Columns are available in tapered round, non-tapered round, square, craftsman, fluted, and paneled, in sizes ranging from 6x6 through 24x24 (not all styles in all sizes).
Column Styles Column Styles come in tapered round, non-tapered round, square, craftsman, fluted and paneled.
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 Ionic columns and capitals, and column bases, corinthian doric ionic capitals architectural ornaments
Ionic columns and capitals, and column bases, corinthian doric ionic capitals architectural ornaments
Tuscan style evolved through layers of history, taking cues from the earliest Etruscan metal craft and pottery, and of course, from the sumptuous world of the Italian Renaissance.
Create the period style of your dreams with this wide selection of historic, classic and contemporary capitals and pedestals.
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 Behind The Chair - Products
CHI Ionic Color Lock Treatment can also be used daily for additional protection against color fading.
By applying CHI Ionic Color Lock Treatment, the vibrancy of the color and shine is maintained.
When styling hair, use your CHI Turbo, Pro or Rocket Dryer along with a CHI Ceramic Flat Iron with Ionic, Infrared and Ceramic Technology.
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 The Temple Tour - Ionic Hall
Refinement and elegance are the characteristics of Ionic style.
he ceiling of Ionic Hall represents the blue vault of heaven.
In the center blazes the midday sun, surrounded by the planetary and zodiacal signs.
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 Hair Care: 5 in 1 Ionic Hot Air Styler @ PandoraStocks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Create many different styles with this 5 piece hot air hair styler set.
Ionic technology helps make your hair shiny, smooth and more manageable.
It works by releasing negative ions that neutralise a normally positive charge on frizzy flyaway hair.
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