TUSCAN ORDER
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The column height is equal to (7) diameters.
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The column shaft is usually un-fluted (plain/smooth).
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Very simple entablature – no ornamentation, no triglyphs, no guttae.
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The capital consists of a square abacus and a rounded echinus, below.
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The base consists of a square plinth and a rounded torus, above.
- Described by Italian architect, Sebastiano Serlio, as "the solidest and least ornate" of the five orders.
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Colonnades at St. Peter's Square | (Rome)
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Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus | (Rome)
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Lower level of the Colosseum | (Rome)
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St. Paul's Church | (Covent Garden, London)
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Christ Church, Spitafields | (London)
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Temple of Piety | (Yorkshire)
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For doorways and entrances where only one pair of columns is needed.
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Porches (linear or wrap-around).
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The lowest story of a building.
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The façade of a Bank building.
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For colonnades, walkways, and pergolas.
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As interior room dividers – instead of walls.
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For more simple-style homes / buildings where a sense of robustness is preferred.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Brandwein, Martin. “CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: A HANDBOOK OF THE TRADITION FOR TODAY.” Institue of Classical Architecture & Art. Web. Oct.-Nov. 2017. Onians, John. Bearers of meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. Stratton, Arthur. The orders of architecture, Greek, Roman and Renaissance, with selected examples of their application shown on 80 plates. London: Studio Editions, 1986. |