Detail of the highly decorated facade of the Tower of the Five Orders, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England: Detail of the highly decorated facade of the Tower of the Five Orders ( 1613-1619 ), Bodleian Library, viewed from the entrance to the Divinity School. The tower forms the main entrance to the Bodleian library, and is known as the Tower of the Five Orders and is so named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with the columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
Size: 5002px × 3648px
Location: Broad Street, Oxford, England, Oxfordshire, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Europe
Photo credit: © Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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