A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The Roman architects made considerable vari-ations in the order, the details of which are shownin the engraving on the following page, from an ex-ample at Albano near Rome. In the later examplesof the Roman Doric, a base is given to the column. II. The Ionic Order is as much distinguishedby simple gracefulness as the Doric by majesticstrength. The column is much more slenderthan the Doric, having, in the earliest known ex-ample, namely, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus,a height of 16 modules, which was afterwards in-creased to 18. The shaft rests
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . The Roman architects made considerable vari-ations in the order, the details of which are shownin the engraving on the following page, from an ex-ample at Albano near Rome. In the later examplesof the Roman Doric, a base is given to the column. II. The Ionic Order is as much distinguishedby simple gracefulness as the Doric by majesticstrength. The column is much more slenderthan the Doric, having, in the earliest known ex-ample, namely, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus,a height of 16 modules, which was afterwards in-creased to 18. The shaft rests upon a base, whichwas either the elaborate Ionic or the Attic [Spira;Atticurges]. The capital either springs di-rectly from the shaft, or there is a hypotrachelium,1 separated from the shaft by an astragal moulding,y 3 326 COLUMN and sometimes, as in the Erechtheinm, adornedwith leaf- work (avQefxiov). The capital itself con-sists of, first, an astragal moulding, above whichis an echinus, sculptured into eggs and serpents1tongues, and above this (sometimes with a torusintervening) the eanalis, from which spring thespiral volutes, which are the chief characteristicsof the order. There is generally an ornamentedabacus between the capital and the architrave is in three faces, the one slightlyprojecting beyond the other ; there is a small
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