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href="#Historical_development"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Historical development</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historical_development-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vignola_defining_the_concept_of_"order"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vignola_defining_the_concept_of_"order""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Vignola defining the concept of "order"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Vignola_defining_the_concept_of_"order"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nonce_orders" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nonce_orders"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Nonce orders</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Nonce_orders-sublist" class="cdx-button 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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>American orders</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-American_orders-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A" title="نظام كلاسيكي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="نظام كلاسيكي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orderl%C9%99rin_n%C3%B6vl%C9%99ri_v%C9%99_strukturu" title="Orderlərin növləri və strukturu – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Orderlərin növləri və strukturu" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Архитектура ордеры – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Архитектура ордеры" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Архітэктурны ордар – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Архітэктурны ордар" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Архітэктурны ордэр – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Архітэктурны ордэр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordres_cl%C3%A0ssics" title="Ordres clàssics – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ordres clàssics" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%C4%95" title="Архитектура ордерĕ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Архитектура ордерĕ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klasick%C3%A1_%C5%99%C3%A1dov%C3%A1_architektura" title="Klasická řádová architektura – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Klasická řádová architektura" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordine_architetturale" title="Ordine architetturale – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Ordine architetturale" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klassiske_s%C3%B8jleordener" title="Klassiske søjleordener – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Klassiske søjleordener" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4ulenordnung" title="Säulenordnung – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Säulenordnung" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order" title="Order – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Order" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93rdenes_cl%C3%A1sicos" title="Órdenes clásicos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Órdenes clásicos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klasikaj_ordoj" title="Klasikaj ordoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Klasikaj ordoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93rdenis_cr%C3%A1sicus" title="Órdenis crásicus – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Órdenis crásicus" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordena_klasiko" title="Ordena klasiko – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ordena klasiko" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C" title="شیوههای معماری کلاسیک غربی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شیوههای معماری کلاسیک غربی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordre_architectural" title="Ordre architectural – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ordre architectural" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orde_arquitect%C3%B3nica" title="Orde arquitectónica – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Orde arquitectónica" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A3%BC%EB%B2%94_%EC%96%91%EC%8B%9D" title="주범 양식 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="주범 양식" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Օրդերներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օրդերներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langgam_klasik_(arsitektur)" title="Langgam klasik (arsitektur) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Langgam klasik (arsitektur)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordine_architettonico" title="Ordine architettonico – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ordine architettonico" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%99" title="סדר קלאסי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סדר קלאסי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" 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class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about architecture. For social order, see <a href="/wiki/Social_order" title="Social order">Social order</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_(Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite)_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf/page1-290px-ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf/page1-435px-ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf/page1-580px-ARCHITECTURE_ORDERS_Greeks_Etruscan_Roman_%28Doric_Ionic_Corinthian_Tuscan_Composite%29_by_Paolo_Villa_ENG_edition.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7020" data-file-height="4964" /></a><figcaption>Greek, "Etruscan" and Roman orders, with <a href="/wiki/Stylobate" title="Stylobate">stylobate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pediment" title="Pediment">pediment</a></figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>order</b> in <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coming down to the present from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman">Ancient Roman</a> civilization, the <b>architectural orders</b> are the styles of <a href="/wiki/Classical_architecture" title="Classical architecture">classical architecture</a>, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of <a href="/wiki/Column" title="Column">column</a> employed. The three orders of architecture—the <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_order" title="Corinthian order">Corinthian</a>—originated in Greece. To these the Romans added, in practice if not in name, the <a href="/wiki/Tuscan_order" title="Tuscan order">Tuscan</a>, which they made simpler than Doric, and the <a href="/wiki/Composite_order" title="Composite order">Composite</a>, which was more ornamental than the Corinthian. The architectural order of a classical building is akin to the <a href="/wiki/Musical_mode" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical mode">mode</a> or <a href="/wiki/Key_(music)" title="Key (music)">key</a> of <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">grammar</a> or <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a> of a written composition. It is established by certain <i>modules</i> like the <a href="/wiki/Interval_(music)" title="Interval (music)">intervals</a> of music, and it raises certain expectations in an audience attuned to its language.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Whereas the orders were essentially structural in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_architecture" title="Ancient Greek architecture">Ancient Greek architecture</a>, which made little use of the arch until its late period, in <a href="/wiki/Roman_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman architecture">Roman architecture</a> where the arch was often dominant, the orders became increasingly decorative elements except in <a href="/wiki/Portico" title="Portico">porticos</a> and similar uses. Columns shrank into half-columns emerging from walls or turned into <a href="/wiki/Pilaster" title="Pilaster">pilasters</a>. This treatment continued after the conscious and "correct" use of the orders, initially following exclusively Roman models, returned in the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance" title="Italian Renaissance">Italian Renaissance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture" title="Greek Revival architecture">Greek Revival architecture</a>, inspired by increasing knowledge of Greek originals, returned to more authentic models, including ones from relatively early periods.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png/220px-Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="346" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png/330px-Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png/440px-Classical_orders_from_the_Encyclopedie.png 2x" data-file-width="853" data-file-height="1342" /></a><figcaption>An illustration of the Five Architectural Orders engraved for the Encyclopédie, vol. 18, showing the Tuscan and Doric orders (top row); two versions of the Ionic order (center row); Corinthian and Composite orders (bottom row)</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elements">Elements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Elements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Each style has distinctive <a href="/wiki/Capital_(architecture)" title="Capital (architecture)">capitals</a> at the top of columns and horizontal <a href="/wiki/Entablature" title="Entablature">entablatures</a> which it supports, while the rest of the building does not in itself vary between the orders. The column shaft and base also varies with the order, and is sometimes articulated with vertical concave grooves known as <a href="/wiki/Fluting_(architecture)" title="Fluting (architecture)">fluting</a>. The shaft is wider at the bottom than at the top, because its <a href="/wiki/Entasis" title="Entasis">entasis</a>, beginning a third of the way up, imperceptibly makes the column slightly more slender at the top, although some Doric columns, especially early Greek ones, are visibly "flared", with straight profiles that narrow going up the shaft. </p><p>The capital rests on the shaft. It has a load-bearing function, which concentrates the weight of the entablature on the supportive column, but it primarily serves an aesthetic purpose. The necking is the continuation of the shaft, but is visually separated by one or many grooves. The <a href="/wiki/Molding_(decorative)" title="Molding (decorative)">echinus</a> lies atop the necking. It is a circular block that bulges outwards towards the top to support the <a href="/wiki/Abacus_(architecture)" title="Abacus (architecture)">abacus</a>, which is a square or shaped block that in turn supports the entablature. The entablature consists of three horizontal layers, all of which are visually separated from each other using moldings or bands. In Roman and post-Renaissance work, the entablature may be carried from column to column in the form of an <a href="/wiki/Arch" title="Arch">arch</a> that springs from the column that bears its weight, retaining its divisions and sculptural enrichment, if any. There are names for all the many parts of the orders. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Measurement">Measurement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Measurement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg/310px-Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg" decoding="async" width="310" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg/465px-Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg/620px-Schema_Saeulenordnungen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1608" /></a><figcaption>Greek orders with full height</figcaption></figure> <p>The heights of columns are calculated in terms of a ratio between the diameter of the shaft at its base and the height of the column. A Doric column can be described as seven diameters high, an Ionic column as eight diameters high, and a Corinthian column nine diameters high, although the actual ratios used vary considerably in both ancient and revived examples, but still keeping to the trend of increasing slimness between the orders. Sometimes this is phrased as "lower diameters high", to establish which part of the shaft has been measured. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek_orders">Greek orders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Greek orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are three distinct orders in Ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. These three were adopted by the Romans, who modified their capitals. The Roman adoption of the Greek orders took place in the 1st century BC. The three ancient Greek orders have since been consistently used in European <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neoclassical architecture</a>. </p><p>Sometimes the Doric order is considered the earliest order, but there is no evidence to support this. Rather, the Doric and Ionic orders seem to have appeared at around the same time, the Ionic in eastern Greece and the Doric in the west and mainland. </p><p>Both the Doric and the Ionic order appear to have originated in wood. The <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Hera_(Olympia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Hera (Olympia)">Temple of Hera</a> in Olympia is the oldest well-preserved temple of Doric architecture. It was built just after 600 BC. The Doric order later spread across Greece and into <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, where it was the chief order for monumental architecture for 800 years. Early Greeks were no doubt aware of the use of stone columns with bases and capitals in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture" title="Ancient Egyptian architecture">ancient Egyptian architecture</a>, and that of other Near Eastern cultures, although there they were mostly used in interiors, rather than as a dominant feature of all or part of exteriors, in the Greek style. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg/180px-Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg/270px-Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg/360px-Chapiteau-Parthenon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="803" /></a><figcaption>Doric capital of the <a href="/wiki/Parthenon" title="Parthenon">Parthenon</a> from Athens</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Doric_order">Doric order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Doric order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric order</a></div> <p>The Doric order originated on the mainland and western <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>. It is the simplest of the orders, characterized by short, organized, heavy columns with plain, round <a href="/wiki/Capital_(architecture)" title="Capital (architecture)">capitals</a> (tops) and no base. With a height that is only four to eight times its diameter, the columns are the most squat of all orders. The shaft of the Doric order is channeled with 20 flutes. The capital consists of a necking or <a href="/wiki/Annulet_(architecture)" title="Annulet (architecture)">annulet</a>, which is a simple ring. The echinus is convex, or circular cushion like stone, and the <a href="/wiki/Abacus_(architecture)" title="Abacus (architecture)">abacus</a> is a square slab of stone. </p><p>Above the capital is a square abacus connecting the capital to the entablature. The entablature is divided into three horizontal registers, the lower part of which is either smooth or divided by horizontal lines. The upper half is distinctive for the Doric order. The frieze of the Doric entablature is divided into <a href="/wiki/Triglyph" title="Triglyph">triglyphs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metope_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metope (architecture)">metopes</a>. A triglyph is a unit consisting of three vertical bands which are separated by grooves. Metopes are the plain or carved reliefs between two triglyphs. </p><p> The Greek forms of the Doric order come without an individual base. They instead are placed directly on the <a href="/wiki/Stylobate" title="Stylobate">stylobate</a>. Later forms, however, came with the conventional base consisting of a plinth and a torus. The Roman versions of the Doric order have smaller proportions. As a result, they appear lighter than the Greek orders.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg/180px-Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg/270px-Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg/360px-Ionic_capital_at_the_British_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2160" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption>Ionic capital from the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II_Great_Court" title="Queen Elizabeth II Great Court">Queen Elizabeth II Great Court</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> (London)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ionic_order">Ionic order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ionic order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic order</a></div> <p>The Ionic order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known <a href="/wiki/Aeolic_order" title="Aeolic order">Aeolic order</a>. It is distinguished by slender, fluted <a href="/wiki/Column" title="Column">pillars</a> with a large base and two opposed <a href="/wiki/Volute" title="Volute">volutes</a> (also called "scrolls") in the echinus of the capital. The echinus itself is decorated with an <a href="/wiki/Egg-and-dart" title="Egg-and-dart">egg-and-dart</a> <a href="/wiki/Motif_(visual_arts)" title="Motif (visual arts)">motif</a>. The Ionic shaft comes with four more flutes than the Doric counterpart (totalling 24). The Ionic base has two convex moldings called <i>tori</i>, which are separated by a scotia. </p><p> The Ionic order is also marked by an <a href="/wiki/Entasis" title="Entasis">entasis</a>, a curved tapering in the column shaft. A column of the Ionic order is nine times more tall than its lower diameter. The shaft itself is eight diameters high. The architrave of the entablature commonly consists of three stepped bands (<i>fasciae</i>). The frieze comes without the Doric triglyph and metope. The frieze sometimes comes with a continuous ornament such as carved figures instead.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Pantheon,_Rome_(14995115321).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg/180px-The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg/270px-The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg/360px-The_Pantheon%2C_Rome_%2814995115321%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="4928" /></a><figcaption>Corinthian capital of a column from the interior of the <a href="/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome" title="Pantheon, Rome">Pantheon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corinthian_order">Corinthian order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Corinthian order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_order" title="Corinthian order">Corinthian order</a></div> <p>The Corinthian order is the most elaborated of the Greek orders, characterized by a slender fluted column having an ornate capital decorated with two rows of <a href="/wiki/Acanthus_(ornament)" title="Acanthus (ornament)">acanthus leaves</a> and four scrolls. The shaft of the Corinthian order has 24 flutes. The column is commonly ten diameters high. </p><p>The Roman writer <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> <a href="/wiki/Callimachus_(sculptor)#Architecture" title="Callimachus (sculptor)">credited</a> the invention of the Corinthian order to <a href="/wiki/Callimachus_(sculptor)" title="Callimachus (sculptor)">Callimachus</a>, a Greek <a href="/wiki/Sculpture" title="Sculpture">sculptor</a> of the 5th century BC. The oldest known building built according to this order is the <a href="/wiki/Choragic_Monument_of_Lysicrates" title="Choragic Monument of Lysicrates">Choragic Monument of Lysicrates</a> in Athens, constructed from 335 to 334 BC. The Corinthian order was raised to rank by the writings of Vitruvius in the 1st century BC. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roman_orders">Roman orders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Roman orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims,_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif/lossy-page1-180px-Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif/lossy-page1-270px-Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif/lossy-page1-360px-Ritning_%C3%B6ver_kolonnkapit%C3%A4l_och_gesims%2C_1700-tal_-_Skoklosters_slott_-_99017.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3146" data-file-height="5045" /></a><figcaption>Tuscan capital and entablature, illustration from the 18th century</figcaption></figure><p>The Romans adapted all the Greek orders and also developed two orders of their own, basically modifications of Greek orders. However, it was not until the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> that these were named and formalized as the <a href="/wiki/Tuscan_order" title="Tuscan order">Tuscan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Composite_order" title="Composite order">Composite</a>, respectively the plainest and most ornate of the orders. The Romans also invented the <a href="/wiki/Superposed_order" title="Superposed order">Superposed order</a>. A superposed order is when successive stories of a building have different orders. The heaviest orders were at the bottom, whilst the lightest came at the top. This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Giant_order" title="Giant order">Giant order</a> was invented by <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">architects in the Renaissance</a>. The Giant order is characterized by columns that extend the height of two or more stories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tuscan_order">Tuscan order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tuscan order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bodleian_Library_2_(5650412310).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg/290px-Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="435" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg/435px-Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg/580px-Bodleian_Library_2_%285650412310%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="4752" /></a><figcaption>The Tower of The Five Orders at the <a href="/wiki/Bodleian_Library" title="Bodleian Library">Bodleian Library</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>, completed in 1619, includes Tuscan through Composite orders.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tuscan_order" title="Tuscan order">Tuscan order</a></div><p> The Tuscan order has a very plain design, with a plain shaft, and a simple capital, base, and frieze. It is a simplified adaptation of the Greeks' Doric order. The Tuscan order is characterized by an unfluted shaft and a capital that consists of only an echinus and an abacus. In proportions it is similar to the Doric order, but overall it is significantly plainer. The column is normally seven diameters high. Compared to the other orders, the Tuscan order looks the most solid.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Composite_capital,_Palace_of_Justice_(today_Ethnographic_Museum),_Budapest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg/180px-Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg/270px-Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg/360px-Composite_capital%2C_Palace_of_Justice_%28today_Ethnographic_Museum%29%2C_Budapest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="1410" /></a><figcaption>Composite capital in the former Palace of Justice (<a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composite_order">Composite order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Composite order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Composite_order" title="Composite order">Composite order</a></div> <p>The Composite order is a mixed order, combining the volutes of the Ionic with the leaves of the Corinthian order. Until the Renaissance it was not ranked as a separate order. Instead it was considered as a late Roman form of the Corinthian order. The column of the Composite order is typically ten diameters high. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_development">Historical development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Historical development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">Renaissance</a> period saw renewed interest in the literary sources of the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, and the fertile development of a new architecture based on classical principles. The treatise <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/De_architectura" title="De architectura">De architectura</a></i></span> by Roman theoretician, architect and engineer <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a>, is the only architectural writing that survived from Antiquity. Effectively rediscovered in the 15th century, <a href="/wiki/De_architectura#Survival_and_rediscovery" title="De architectura">Vitruvius came to be regarded</a> as the ultimate authority on architecture. However, in his text the word <i>order</i> is not to be found. To describe the four species of columns (he only mentions: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) he uses, in fact, various words such as: <i>genus</i> (gender), <i>mos</i> (habit, fashion, manner), <i>opera</i> (work). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg/290px-Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="364" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg/435px-Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg/580px-Paris-St_Gervais-104-2017-gje.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="4334" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/St-Gervais-et-St-Protais_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church">St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church</a> in Paris presents columns of the three orders: Doric at the ground floor, Ionic at the second floor, Corinthian at the third floor.</figcaption></figure> <p>The term <i>order</i>, as well as the idea of redefining the <i>canon</i> started circulating in Rome, at the beginning of the 16th century, probably during the studies of Vitruvius' text conducted and shared by <a href="/wiki/Baldassare_Peruzzi" title="Baldassare Peruzzi">Peruzzi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raphael" title="Raphael">Raphael</a>, and Sangallo.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ever since, the definition of the <i>canon</i> has been a collective endeavor that involved several generations of European architects, from Renaissance and Baroque periods, basing their theories both on the study of Vitruvius' writings and the observation of Roman ruins (the Greek ruins became available only after Greek Independence, 1821–1823). What was added were rules for the use of the Architectural Orders, and the exact proportions of them in minute detail. Commentary on the appropriateness of the orders for temples devoted to particular deities (Vitruvius I.2.5) were elaborated by Renaissance theorists, with Doric characterized as bold and manly, Ionic as matronly, and Corinthian as maidenly.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vignola_defining_the_concept_of_"order""><span id="Vignola_defining_the_concept_of_.22order.22"></span>Vignola defining the concept of "order"</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Vignola defining the concept of "order""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Table_of_architecture,_Cyclopaedia,_1728,_volume_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg/220px-Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg/330px-Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg/440px-Table_of_architecture%2C_Cyclopaedia%2C_1728%2C_volume_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2529" data-file-height="2708" /></a><figcaption>Illustrations of the Classical orders (from left to right): <a href="/wiki/Tuscan_order" title="Tuscan order">Tuscan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_order" title="Corinthian order">Corinthian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Composite_order" title="Composite order">Composite</a>, made in 1728, from <a href="/wiki/Cyclop%C3%A6dia,_or_an_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences">Cyclopædia</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Five_Orders_of_Architecture" title="The Five Orders of Architecture">The Five Orders of Architecture</a></div> <p>Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the <i>Regole generali di architettura sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici</i> by <a href="/wiki/Sebastiano_Serlio" title="Sebastiano Serlio">Sebastiano Serlio</a> published from 1537 onwards, <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Barozzi_da_Vignola" title="Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola">Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola</a> produced an architecture rule book that was not only more practical than the previous two treatises, but also was systematically and consistently adopting, for the first time, the term 'order' to define each of the five different species of columns inherited from antiquity. A first publication of the various plates, as separate sheets, appeared in Rome in 1562, with the title: <i>Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura</i> ("Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture").<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As David Watkin has pointed out, Vignola's book "was to have an astonishing publishing history of over 500 editions in 400 years in ten languages, Italian, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, during which it became perhaps the most influential book of all times".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The book consisted simply of an introduction followed by 32 annotated plates, highlighting the proportional system with all the minute details of the Five Architectural Orders. According to Christof Thoenes, the main expert of Renaissance architectural treatises, "in accordance with Vitruvius's example, Vignola chose a "module" equal to a half-diameter which is the base of the system. All the other measurements are expressed in fractions or in multiples of this module. The result is an arithmetical model, and with its help each order, harmoniously proportioned, can easily be adapted to any given height, of a façade or an interior. From this point of view, Vignola's Regola is a remarkable intellectual achievement".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In America, <i>The American Builder's Companion</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> written in the early 19th century by the architect <a href="/wiki/Asher_Benjamin" title="Asher Benjamin">Asher Benjamin</a>, influenced many builders in the eastern states, particularly those who developed what became known as the <a href="/wiki/Federal_architecture" title="Federal architecture">Federal style</a>. The last American re-interpretation of Vignola's <i>Regola</i>, was edited in 1904 by William Robert Ware.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The break from the classical mode came first with the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic Revival architecture</a>, then the development of modernism during the 19th century. The <a href="/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a> promoted pure functionalism, stripped of superfluous ornament, and that has become one of the defining characteristics of <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modern architecture</a>. There are some exceptions. <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_architecture" title="Postmodern architecture">Postmodernism</a> introduced an ironic use of the orders as a cultural reference, divorced from the strict rules of composition. On the other hand, a number of practitioners such as <a href="/wiki/Quinlan_Terry" title="Quinlan Terry">Quinlan Terry</a> in England, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Middleton_Dwyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Middleton Dwyer">Michael Dwyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sammons" title="Richard Sammons">Richard Sammons</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Stroik" class="mw-redirect" title="Duncan Stroik">Duncan Stroik</a> in the United States, continue the classical tradition, and use the classical orders in their work. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nonce_orders">Nonce orders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Nonce orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several orders, usually based upon the composite order and only varying in the design of the capitals, have been invented under the inspiration of specific occasions, but have not been used again. They are termed "<i>nonce orders</i>" by analogy to <i><a href="/wiki/Nonce_word" title="Nonce word">nonce words</a></i>; several examples follow below. </p><p>These nonce orders all express the "speaking architecture" (<i><a href="/wiki/Architecture_parlante" title="Architecture parlante">architecture parlante</a></i>) that was taught in the Paris courses, most explicitly by <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Louis_Boull%C3%A9e" title="Étienne-Louis Boullée">Étienne-Louis Boullée</a>, in which sculptural details of classical architecture could be enlisted to speak symbolically, the better to express the purpose of the structure and enrich its visual meaning with specific appropriateness. This idea was taken up strongly in the training of <a href="/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture" title="Beaux-Arts architecture">Beaux-Arts architecture</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1875–1915</span>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_order">French order</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: French order"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Hall_of_Mirrors" title="Hall of Mirrors">Hall of Mirrors</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles" title="Palace of Versailles">Palace of Versailles</a> contains pilasters with bronze capitals in the "French order". Designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Le_Brun" title="Charles Le Brun">Charles Le Brun</a>, the capitals display the national emblems of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">Kingdom of France</a>: the royal sun between two <a href="/wiki/Gallic_rooster" title="Gallic rooster">Gallic roosters</a> above a <a href="/wiki/Fleur-de-lis" title="Fleur-de-lis">fleur-de-lis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_orders">British orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: British orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>'s brother <a href="/wiki/James_Adam_(architect)" title="James Adam (architect)">James</a> was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Charles-Louis_Cl%C3%A9risseau" title="Charles-Louis Clérisseau">Clérisseau</a>; he invented a "British order" and published an engraving of it. Its capital the heraldic lion and unicorn take the place of the Composite's volutes, a Byzantine or Romanesque conception, but expressed in terms of neoclassical realism. Adam's ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting is at the <a href="/wiki/Avery_Architectural_and_Fine_Arts_Library" title="Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library">Avery Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. </p><p>In 1789 <a href="/wiki/George_Dance_the_Elder" title="George Dance the Elder">George Dance</a> invented an <a href="/wiki/Ammonite_order" title="Ammonite order">Ammonite order</a>, a variant of Ionic, substituting volutes in the form of <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossil</a> <a href="/wiki/Ammonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Ammonite">ammonites</a> for <a href="/wiki/John_Boydell" title="John Boydell">John Boydell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Boydell_Shakespeare_Gallery" title="Boydell Shakespeare Gallery">Shakespeare Gallery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall,_London" title="Pall Mall, London">Pall Mall, London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-oxford22_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oxford22-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An adaptation of the Corinthian order by <a href="/wiki/William_Donthorne" title="William Donthorne">William Donthorne</a> that used turnip leaves and <a href="/wiki/Mangelwurzel" title="Mangelwurzel">mangelwurzel</a> is termed the Agricultural order.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sir_Edwin_Lutyens" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Edwin Lutyens">Sir Edwin Lutyens</a>, who from 1912 laid out <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> as the new seat of government for the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire_in_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British Empire in India">British Empire in India</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> designed a Delhi order having a capital displaying a band of vertical ridges, and with bells hanging at each corner as a replacement for volutes.<sup id="cite_ref-Gradidge151_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gradidge151-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His design for the new city's central palace, Viceroy's House, now the Presidential residence <a href="/wiki/Rashtrapati_Bhavan" title="Rashtrapati Bhavan">Rashtrapati Bhavan</a>, was a thorough integration of elements of <a href="/wiki/Indian_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian architecture">Indian architecture</a> into a building of classical forms and proportions,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and made use of the order throughout.<sup id="cite_ref-Gradidge151_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gradidge151-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Delhi Order reappears in some later Lutyens buildings including <a href="/wiki/Campion_Hall,_Oxford" title="Campion Hall, Oxford">Campion Hall, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width: 210px; clear: left; float:left;margin:0 1.5em 1.5em 0;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/greek-art/beginners-guide-greece/v/the-classical-orders">The Classical orders</a> – a Smarthistory video.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="American_orders">American orders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: American orders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg/220px-Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg/330px-Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg/440px-Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="547" /></a><figcaption>Corn capital at the <a href="/wiki/Litchfield_Villa" title="Litchfield Villa">Litchfield Villa</a> <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)" title="Prospect Park (Brooklyn)">Prospect Park (Brooklyn)</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis" title="Alexander Jackson Davis">A.J. Davis</a>, architect)</figcaption></figure> <p>In the United States <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Latrobe" class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Latrobe">Benjamin Latrobe</a>, the architect of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">Capitol building</a> in Washington, DC, designed a series of botanical American orders. Most famous is the Corinthian order substituting ears of corn and their husks for the acanthus leaves, which was executed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Giuseppe_Franzoni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giuseppe Franzoni (page does not exist)">Giuseppe Franzoni</a> and used in the small domed vestibule of the Senate. Only this vestibule survived the <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Washington" title="Burning of Washington">Burning of Washington</a> in 1814, nearly intact.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted tobacco leaves for the acanthus, of which he sent a sketch to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> in a letter, 5 November 1816. He was encouraged to send a model of it, which remains at <a href="/wiki/Monticello" title="Monticello">Monticello</a>. In the 1830s <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis" title="Alexander Jackson Davis">Alexander Jackson Davis</a> admired it enough to make a drawing of it. In 1809 Latrobe invented a second American order, employing <a href="/wiki/Magnolia" title="Magnolia">magnolia</a> flowers constrained within the profile of classical mouldings, as his drawing demonstrates. It was intended for "the Upper Columns in the Gallery of the Entrance of the Chamber of the Senate".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek temple">Greek temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">Roman temple</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGwilt1842" class="citation book cs1">Gwilt, Joseph (1842). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anencyclopdiaar00gwilgoog"><i>An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical</i></a>. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/anencyclopdiaar00gwilgoog/page/n695">680</a>. <q>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.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Encyclop%C3%A6dia+of+Architecture%3A+Historical%2C+Theoretical%2C+and+Practical&rft.place=London&rft.pages=680&rft.pub=Longman%2C+Brown%2C+Green%2C+and+Longmans&rft.date=1842&rft.aulast=Gwilt&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fanencyclopdiaar00gwilgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClassical+order" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Summerson, pp. 7–15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Summerson, pp. 19–21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">H. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-12-29</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Library+of+Congress&rft.atitle=United+States+Capitol+exhibit&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fexhibits%2Fus.capitol%2Fs4.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClassical+order" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Summerson" title="John Summerson">Summerson, John</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Classical_Language_of_Architecture" title="The Classical Language of Architecture">The Classical Language of Architecture</a></i>, 1980 edition, <a href="/wiki/Thames_and_Hudson" class="mw-redirect" title="Thames and Hudson">Thames and Hudson</a> <i>World of Art</i> series, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0500201773" title="Special:BookSources/0500201773">0500201773</a></li> <li>Frédérique Lemerle et Yves Pauwels (dir.), <i>Histoires d’ordres: le langage européen de l’architecture</i>, Turhout, Brepols, 2021</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Classical_order&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library">Library resources</a> about <br /> <b>Classical order</b> <hr /></div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Classical+order&library=OLBP">Online books</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Classical+order">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Classical+order&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li> </ul></div></div> </div> <ul><li>Barletta, Barbara A., <i>The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders</i> (Cambridge University Press) 2001</li> <li>Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo, <i>Canon of the Five Orders</i>, Translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by Branko Mitrovic, Acanthus Press, New York, 1999</li> <li>Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo, <i>Canon of the Five Orders</i>, Translated by John Leeke (1669), with an introduction by David Watkin, Dover Publications, New York, 2011</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChitham2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Chitham" title="Robert Chitham">Chitham, Robert</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YWCnUT0-5xwC"><i>The Classical Orders Of Architecture</i></a>. Elsevier/Architectural Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7506-6124-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7506-6124-9"><bdi>978-0-7506-6124-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Classical+Orders+Of+Architecture&rft.pub=Elsevier%2FArchitectural+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-7506-6124-9&rft.aulast=Chitham&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYWCnUT0-5xwC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClassical+order" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames_Stevens_Curl2003" class="citation book cs1">James Stevens Curl (2003). <i>Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, With a Select Glossary of Terms</i>. W. W. Norton & Company. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-73119-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-73119-4"><bdi>978-0-393-73119-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Classical+Architecture%3A+An+Introduction+to+Its+Vocabulary+and+Essentials%2C+With+a+Select+Glossary+of+Terms&rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton+%26+Company&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-393-73119-4&rft.au=James+Stevens+Curl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClassical+order" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Newenham_Summerson1963" class="citation book cs1">John Newenham Summerson (1963). <i>The Classical Language of Architecture</i>. The MIT Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-262-69012-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-262-69012-6"><bdi>978-0-262-69012-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Classical+Language+of+Architecture&rft.pub=The+MIT+Press&rft.date=1963&rft.isbn=978-0-262-69012-6&rft.au=John+Newenham+Summerson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClassical+order" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTzonisLefaivre1986" class="citation book cs1">Tzonis, Alexander; Lefaivre, Liane (1986). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/classicalarchite00tzon_0"><i>Classical architecture: the poetics of order</i></a></span>. 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