Classical Orders
Column Anatomy
Order Characteristics
Name That Column!
Miscellaneous
100
The most exquisite of the three Greek orders.
What is the Corinthian order?
100
The highest part of the column, connecting the shaft to the entablature.
What is the capital?
100
The differences between the Tuscan and Doric orders.
What is Tuscan has a smooth shaft, simple entablature, and the proportions of the Ionic order?
100
The columns in this picture.
What are Ionic columns?
100
My favorite type of column.
Ionic columns
200
The specific sequence of columns under the Superposed order.
What is Tuscan -> Doric -> Ionic -> Corinthian -> Composite?
200
The foundation upon which the base of the column sits, or where the shaft rests in the Doric order.
What is the stylobate?
200
Key features of the Composite order.
What are large volutes and acanthus leaves?
200
The columns on this building.
What are Tuscan columns?
200
Draw a fully accurate Ionic column.
(McNeice will judge drawings)
300
A building prominently featuring the Superposed order of architecture.
What is the Colosseum (Flavian amphitheatre)?
300
The section of the entablature directly above the capital.
What is the architrave?
300
Two defining characteristics of the Corinthian order.
What is stylized acanthus leaves and thinnest shafts?
300
The order of columns feature on this monument.
What are Corinthian columns?
300
When Tuscan and Composite styles were officially recognized as classical orders.
1500s
400
The specific gendered ideal represented by each of the classical Greek orders.
What is Doric for masculinity and men, Ionic for womanhood and women, and Corinthian for girls and innocence?
400
Two key elements of a columns base.
What is the plinth and the torus?
400
Three defining features of the Ionic Order.
What are volutes, egg and dart designs, and a fluted shaft?
400
The types of columns featured on this monument.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns?
400
The name for columns that feature statues of women in place of the column.
What are Caryatid columns?
500
A minor Greek order that uses aspects of the Ionic order with the inclusion of a palmette.
What is the Aeolic order?
500
The four elements of a simple capital, in order from the top.
What is an abacus, echinus, necking, and astragal?
500
The four defining traits of the Doric order.
What are circular capitals, fluted shaft, no base, and intricate frieze?
500
The orders of columns featured on this structure.
What are Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite columns?
500
The term for the tapering of a classical column from the bottom of the shaft to the top.
What is entasis?