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The Classical Orders
Also Known As The Orders of Architecture
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The codified column and entablature systems of classical architecture: the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian of Greece, with the Tuscan and Composite added by Rome. Each order fixes proportions, profiles and ornament as a complete grammar, and from Vitruvius to the Renaissance treatises to the Beaux-Arts, learning architecture largely meant learning the orders.
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The Doric and Ionic orders were formulated within this tradition before the Corinthian order and the Roman elaborations that followed.
The cornice is codified as the topmost of the three horizontal divisions of the classical entablature.
Vitruvius is the earliest surviving source to codify the orders' proportional rules, in De architectura Book IV.
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