Characterized by a fluted column having no base, a plain cushion-shaped capital supporting a square abacus, and an entablature consisting of a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice, the corona of which has mutules on its soffit

The Roman version of this order has columns that are more slender and usually have bases, the channeling is sometimes altered or omitted, and the capital consists of a band-like necking, an echinus, and a molded abacus

A classical order of Roman origin, basically a simplified Roman Doric

Characterized by an unfluted column and a plain base, capital, and entablature having no decoration other than moldings

One of the five classical orders, popular esp. since the beginning of the Renaissance but invented by the ancient Romans

The Corinthian order is modified by superimposing four diagonally set Ionic volutes on a bell of Corinthian acanthus leaves.

A classical order that developed in the Greek colonies of Asia Minor in the 6th century BCE

Characterized esp. by the spiral volutes of its capital

The fluted columns typically had molded bases and supported an entablature consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings.

The Roman and Renaissance examples of this order are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals 45° to the architrave

The most ornate of the five classical orders, developed by the Greeks in the 4th century BCE but used more extensively in Roman architecture

Usually of slenderer proportions and characterized esp. by a deep bell-shaped capital decorated with acanthus leaves and an abacus with concave sides

One of the vertical blocks separating the metopes in a Doric frieze, typically having two vertical grooves or glyphs on its face, and two chamfers or hemiglyphs at the sides

Any of the panels, either plain or decorated, between triglyphs in the Doric frieze

A raised band or fillet separating the frieze from the architrave on a Doric entablature

A fillet beneath the taenia in a Doric entablature, corresponding to a triglyph above and from which guttae are suspended

The flat slab forming the top of a column capital, plain in the Doric style, but molded or otherwise enriched in other styles

The prominent circular molding supporting the abacus of a Doric or Tuscan capital

The upper part of a column, just above the shaft and below the projecting part of the capital, when differentiated by a molding, groove, or the omission of fluting

An encircling band, molding, or fillet, on a capital or shaft of a column

A decorative motif consisting of a series of long, rounded, parallel grooves, as on the shaft of a classical column

A rounded channel or groove. Also called stria.

The underside of an architectural element, as that of an arch, beam, cornice, or staircase

One of a series of small, drop-like ornaments, attached to the undersides of the mutules and regulae of a Doric entablature

A projecting flat block under the corona of a Doric cornice, corresponding to the modillion of other orders

A frieze bearing carved figures of people or animals

That part of the necking between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a classical column

Any member between the capital and the shaft of a classical column

A slight convexity given to a column to correct an optical illusion of concavity if the sides were straight

Any of several cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier

An order of columns more than one story in height

An ornamental motif for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms

Any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks forming a molding or projecting beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices

One of the three horizontal bands making up the architrave in the Ionic order

A base to a classical column, consisting of an upper and a lower torus separated by a scotia between two fillets

A deep concave molding between two fillets

A large convex, semi-circular molding, commonly found directly above the plinth of the base of a classical column

The underlying part of a foliated capital, between the abacus and neck molding

An ornament, such as on the Corinthian capital, patterned after the large, toothed leaves of a Mediterranean plant of the same name

A spiral, scroll-like ornament, as on the capitals of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders

The vertical guideline through the eye of a volute in an Ionic capital, from which the spiral form is determined

The circular molding under the cushion of an Ionic capital between the volutes, usually carved with an egg-and-dart pattern. Also called cymatium.

A narrow part of the surface of a column shaft left between adjoining flutes

A small, concave curve joining the shaft of a classical column to its base

An ornamental bracket, usually in the form of a scroll with acanthus, used in series beneath the corona of a Corinthian, Composite, or Roman Ionic cornice

A spiral ornament, such as any of the volutes issuing from a cauliculus in a Corinthian capital

Any of the ornamental stalks rising between the acanthus leaves of a Corinthian capital, from which the volutes spring