Faster access than browser!
68 relations: Acropolis of Athens, Alexander the Great, American Museum of Natural History, Anatolia, Ancient Greek temple, Anta (architecture), Anta capital, Antebellum architecture, Antoine Desgodetz, Archaic Greece, Architrave, Augustus, Banqueting House, Whitehall, Bead and reel, Capital (architecture), Castle Coole, Classical architecture, Classical order, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Column, Composite order, Corinthian order, Cornice, De architectura, Doric order, Egg-and-dart, Entablature, Erechtheion, Flame palmette, Fluting (architecture), Frieze, Greek Revival architecture, Hellenistic period, Heraion of Samos, Hermogenes of Priene, India, Inigo Jones, Ionia, Jandial, Jefferson Memorial, John Russell Pope, John Summerson, Lotus, Magnesia on the Maeander, Molding (decorative), Neoclassical architecture, Pakistan, Parthenon, Pataliputra capital, Patna, ..., Pilaster, Relief, Renaissance, Samos, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Sphinx of Naxos, Stylobate, Taxila, Temple of Artemis, Temple of Portunus, The Classical Language of Architecture, Theodore Roosevelt, Tuscan order, University of Oslo, Utopia, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Vitruvius, Volute. Expand index (18 more) »
Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
New!!: Ionic order and Acropolis of Athens · See more »
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
New!!: Ionic order and Alexander the Great · See more »
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
New!!: Ionic order and American Museum of Natural History · See more »
Anatolia
Anatolia (Modern Greek: Ανατολία Anatolía, from Ἀνατολή Anatolḗ,; "east" or "rise"), also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek: Μικρά Ἀσία Mikrá Asía, "small Asia"), Asian Turkey, the Anatolian peninsula, or the Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.
New!!: Ionic order and Anatolia · See more »
Ancient Greek temple
Greek temples (dwelling, semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion.
New!!: Ionic order and Ancient Greek temple · See more »
Anta (architecture)
An anta (pl. antæ, antae, antas) (Latin, possibly from ante, 'before' or 'in front of'), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades) is an architectural term describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple - the slightly projecting piers which terminate the walls of the naos.
New!!: Ionic order and Anta (architecture) · See more »
Anta capital
An Anta capital is the crowning portion of an anta, the front edge of a supporting wall in Greek temple architecture.
New!!: Ionic order and Anta capital · See more »
Antebellum architecture
Antebellum architecture (meaning "prewar", from the Latin ante, "before", and bellum, "war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War.
New!!: Ionic order and Antebellum architecture · See more »
Antoine Desgodetz
Antoine Babuty Desgodetz's (1653–1728) publication Les edifices antiques de Rome dessinés et mesurés très exactement (Paris 1682) provided detailed engravings of the monuments and antiquities of Rome to serve French artists and architects.
New!!: Ionic order and Antoine Desgodetz · See more »
Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from the eighth century BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.
New!!: Ionic order and Archaic Greece · See more »
Architrave
An architrave (from architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον epistylon "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns.
New!!: Ionic order and Architrave · See more »
Augustus
Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
New!!: Ionic order and Augustus · See more »
Banqueting House, Whitehall
The Banqueting House, Whitehall, is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house and the only remaining component of the Palace of Whitehall.
New!!: Ionic order and Banqueting House, Whitehall · See more »
Bead and reel
"Bead and reel" is an architectural motif, usually found in sculptures, moldings and numismatics.
New!!: Ionic order and Bead and reel · See more »
Capital (architecture)
In architecture the capital (from the Latin caput, or "head") or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).
New!!: Ionic order and Capital (architecture) · See more »
Castle Coole
Castle Coole (from Cúl - Castle Coole - scanned record 2) is a townland and a late-18th-century neo-classical mansion situated in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
New!!: Ionic order and Castle Coole · See more »
Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of Vitruvius.
New!!: Ionic order and Classical architecture · See more »
Classical order
An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform". Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.
New!!: Ionic order and Classical order · See more »
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture.
New!!: Ionic order and Claude Nicolas Ledoux · See more »
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
New!!: Ionic order and Column · See more »
Composite order
The composite order is a mixed order, combining the volutes of the Ionic order capital with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian order.
New!!: Ionic order and Composite order · See more »
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
New!!: Ionic order and Corinthian order · See more »
Cornice
A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element – the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall.
New!!: Ionic order and Cornice · See more »
De architectura
De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
New!!: Ionic order and De architectura · See more »
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.
New!!: Ionic order and Doric order · See more »
Egg-and-dart
Egg-and-dart or egg-and-tongue is an ornamental device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart.
New!!: Ionic order and Egg-and-dart · See more »
Entablature
An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals.
New!!: Ionic order and Entablature · See more »
Erechtheion
The Erechtheion or Erechtheum (Ἐρέχθειον, Ερέχθειο) is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece which was dedicated to both Athena and Poseidon.
New!!: Ionic order and Erechtheion · See more »
Flame palmette
The flame palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.
New!!: Ionic order and Flame palmette · See more »
Fluting (architecture)
Fluting in architecture is the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface.
New!!: Ionic order and Fluting (architecture) · See more »
Frieze
In architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.
New!!: Ionic order and Frieze · See more »
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.
New!!: Ionic order and Greek Revival architecture · See more »
Hellenistic period
The Hellenistic period covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.
New!!: Ionic order and Hellenistic period · See more »
Heraion of Samos
The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, in the southern region of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city, in a low, marshy river basin near the sea.
New!!: Ionic order and Heraion of Samos · See more »
Hermogenes of Priene
Interest in Hermogenes of Priene (late 3rd - early 2nd century BCE), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene (Artemision) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the 1st-century Roman architect Vitruvius (De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6).
New!!: Ionic order and Hermogenes of Priene · See more »
India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
New!!: Ionic order and India · See more »
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant English architect (of Welsh ancestry) in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
New!!: Ionic order and Inigo Jones · See more »
Ionia
Ionia (Ancient Greek: Ἰωνία, Ionía or Ἰωνίη, Ioníe) was an ancient region on the central part of the western coast of Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna.
New!!: Ionic order and Ionia · See more »
Jandial
Jandial near the city of Taxila in Pakistan is the site of an ancient temple well known for its Ionic columns.
New!!: Ionic order and Jandial · See more »
Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and writer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, governor of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, American minister to King Louis XVI, and the Kingdom of France, first U.S. Secretary of State under the first President George Washington, the second Vice President of the United States under second President John Adams, and also the third President (1801–1809), as well as being the founder of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.
New!!: Ionic order and Jefferson Memorial · See more »
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing of the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, DC.
New!!: Ionic order and John Russell Pope · See more »
John Summerson
Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.
New!!: Ionic order and John Summerson · See more »
Lotus
Lotus may refer to.
New!!: Ionic order and Lotus · See more »
Magnesia on the Maeander
Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander (Μαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Μαιάνδρῳ or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ; Magnḗsĭa ad Mæándrum) was an ancient Greek city in Ionia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles.
New!!: Ionic order and Magnesia on the Maeander · See more »
Molding (decorative)
Moulding (also spelled molding in the United States though usually not within the industry), also known as coving (United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.
New!!: Ionic order and Molding (decorative) · See more »
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.
New!!: Ionic order and Neoclassical architecture · See more »
Pakistan
Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.
New!!: Ionic order and Pakistan · See more »
Parthenon
The Parthenon (Παρθενών; Παρθενώνας, Parthenónas) is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.
New!!: Ionic order and Parthenon · See more »
Pataliputra capital
The Pataliputra capital is a monumental rectangular capital with volutes and Classical Greek designs, that was discovered in the palace ruins of the ancient Mauryan Empire capital city of Pataliputra (modern Patna, northeastern India).
New!!: Ionic order and Pataliputra capital · See more »
Patna
Patna is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India.
New!!: Ionic order and Patna · See more »
Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
New!!: Ionic order and Pilaster · See more »
Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
New!!: Ionic order and Relief · See more »
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
New!!: Ionic order and Renaissance · See more »
Samos
Samos (Σάμος) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait.
New!!: Ionic order and Samos · See more »
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Wonders of the World or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of remarkable constructions of classical antiquity given by various authors in guidebooks or poems popular among ancient Hellenic tourists.
New!!: Ionic order and Seven Wonders of the Ancient World · See more »
Sphinx of Naxos
The Sphinx of Naxos, also Sphinx of the Naxians, now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, is a colossal 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness.
New!!: Ionic order and Sphinx of Naxos · See more »
Stylobate
In classical Greek architecture, a stylobate (στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform upon which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple).
New!!: Ionic order and Stylobate · See more »
Taxila
Taxila (from Pāli: Takkasilā, Sanskrit: तक्षशिला,, meaning "City of Cut Stone" or " Rock") is a town and an important archaeological site in the Rawalpindi District of the Punjab, Pakistan, situated about north-west of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, just off the famous Grand Trunk Road.
New!!: Ionic order and Taxila · See more »
Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Ἀρτεμίσιον; Artemis Tapınağı), also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis.
New!!: Ionic order and Temple of Artemis · See more »
Temple of Portunus
The Temple of Portunus (Tempio di Portuno) or Temple of Fortuna Virilis ("manly fortune") is a Roman temple in Rome, one of the best preserved of all Roman temples.
New!!: Ionic order and Temple of Portunus · See more »
The Classical Language of Architecture
The Classical Language of Architecture is a 1965 compilation of six BBC radio lectures given in 1963 by Sir John Summerson.
New!!: Ionic order and The Classical Language of Architecture · See more »
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
New!!: Ionic order and Theodore Roosevelt · See more »
Tuscan order
The Tuscan order is in effect a simplified Doric order, with un-fluted columns and a simpler entablature with no triglyphs or guttae.
New!!: Ionic order and Tuscan order · See more »
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
New!!: Ionic order and University of Oslo · See more »
Utopia
A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.
New!!: Ionic order and Utopia · See more »
Vincenzo Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century.
New!!: Ionic order and Vincenzo Scamozzi · See more »
Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC), commonly known as Vitruvius, was a Roman author, architect, civil engineer and military engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled De architectura.
New!!: Ionic order and Vitruvius · See more »
Volute
A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column.
New!!: Ionic order and Volute · See more »
Redirects here:
Greek Ionic, Ionian column, Ionian order, Ionic Order, Ionic architecture, Ionic capital, Ionic capitals, Ionic column, Ionic columns, Ionic pillar, Ionic style, Roman Ionic.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic_order
