The decorative periods . {. ETRUSCAN 1040 B. R. C. THE ancient Greeks received their first rudiments of art fromthe Egyptians, changing and elaborating the old decorative device purely Greek is the anthemion, which, with the acanthus, can be tracedthrough subsequent centuries invarious forms, and we recognize itas one of the distinctive featuresof the Renaissance of threethousand years earliest and incipient periodof Greek art is generally three purely Greek ordersare the Doric, a development of theseventh century, B. C.; Ionic, a

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The decorative periods . {. ETRUSCAN 1040 B. R. C. THE ancient Greeks received their first rudiments of art fromthe Egyptians, changing and elaborating the old decorative device purely Greek is the anthemion, which, with the acanthus, can be tracedthrough subsequent centuries invarious forms, and we recognize itas one of the distinctive featuresof the Renaissance of threethousand years earliest and incipient periodof Greek art is generally three purely Greek ordersare the Doric, a development of theseventh century, B. C.; Ionic, adevelopment of the sixth centur)-,B. C.; Corinthian, a development of the third century 1^. C. The Doric capital, as shown by the illustration, is exceed-ingly simple. The Ionic is characterized by volutes. The Cor-inthian is rich in elaborati(jn, with rows of acanthus leaves placedone upon the other, with volutes above them at each THE ANTHEMION

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