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Corinthian pilasters: also employed Orders
The Corinthian column is almost always fluted... Even the flutes of a Corinthian column may be enriched.

 


corinthian - or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture
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corinthian - of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants ...

Corinthian Column
Definition:
The word Corinthian describes a column style developed in ancient Greece and set down in the Classical Orders for Architecture.

Corinthian Order
This is one of the original orders invented in Greece around 500 B.C. It is characterized by a rounded capital decorated with acanthus leaves and a square abacus on tall slender columns.
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The Corinthian column, historically known as the Corinthian order, is seen on many different structural buildings as well as distinguished homes. In Washington D.C., you are able to see eight massive Corinthian pillars in the National Building Museum.

Corinthian
DESCRIPTION:
The Corinthian order is the most decorative and is usually the one most modern people like best. Corinthian also uses entasis to make the shafts look straight.

Corinthian Order - Most complex -most decorated of the Classical orders.
Cornice - Projecting moulding running along the top of a building, an arch or a column.
Corridor - A passage way ...

Corinthian capital : A capital used originally by the Greeks in a system of supports called the Corinthian order.

Corinthian order - classical fluted columns, slender with ornate capitals decorated with stylized leaves
corner boards - placed at the ends of exterior walls to protect the siding (ie. green on Burnett's) ...

Corinthian Order -- Most ornate classical order. Characterized by a capital with ornamental acanthus leaves and curled fern shoots.

Corinthian The type of Greek column characterized by simulated acanthus leaves.
Cornice The uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall; any molded projection of similar form.

Corinthian
a Classical order of architecture, with very decorative capitals.
Cornice ...

Corinthian - Elaborately foliated capital.
Cornice - Decorative projection along the top of a wall.
Counterguard - A long, near-triangular freestanding fortification within the moat.

corinthian column In classical architecture, a column decorated at the top with a mixed bag of curlicues, scrolls and other lavish ornamentation.
crenellation A regular series of gaps in the low wall at the edge of a roof.

Corinthian order: late Greek style of column and capital.
cornice: the crowning projecting moulding along the top of an entablature.
corona: projecting upper member of a cornice.

Corinthian order - the slenderest and most ornate of the classical Greek orders of architecture, characterized by a slim fluted column with bell-shaped capital decorated with stylized acanthus leaves; ...

Corinthian order. Architectural order which originated in Corinth around the 5th century B.C. The Corinthian capital is decorated with acanthus leaves from which small volutes emerge.

Corinthian
The most elaborate of the three classical orders of Greek architecture, distinguished by a slender, fluted column, and a bell-shaped capital that is decorated with a design of acanthus leaves.

Corinthian
An order of Classical architecture featuring capitals surrounded by leaf shapes.
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Corinthian - The most ornate of the three Greek orders, characterised by a bell-shaped capital (q.v.) with volutes and rows of acanthus leaves.

Corinthian
Corinthian columns have capitals with two rows of carved acanthus leaves and four spirals sprouting over the leaves. This style of column was originally Greek but used most widely by the Romans.

Corinthian Order
One of the five orders of classical architecture. Typically, Corinthian columns are slender and fluted. Their capitals are bell-shaped and ornately decorated with acanthus leaves.

Corinthian
Order The latest of the three Greek orders, similar to the Ionic, but with the capital decorated with carvings of the acanthus leaf.

Corinthian
Invented by the Greeks, but not widely used, it was developed by the Romans. The capital has acanthus leaf decoration, which legend bases on a hanging basket. The columns are usually ten diameters in height.

I Corinthians, XIII, 12: We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.
Theophany: Manifestation of Divinity
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The Corinthian order is the most ornate of the Greek orders, characterized by a slender fluted column having an ornate capital decorated with two rows of acanthus leaves and four scrolls. It is commonly regarded as the most elegant of the five orders.

one of the architectural systems (Corinthian, Ionic, Doric) used by the Greeks and Romans to decorate and define the postand- lintel system of construction.
Organic
having the quality of living matter.

A stylization of the acanthus leaf began in Greek and Roman decoration, especially on the Corinthian capital. Aisle: Open area of a church parallel to the nave and separated from it by columns or piers; Space between arcade and outer wall.

However, there was very little mentioned for the Corinthian order. Could you add more information?
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Composite An order of Classical architecture that is a combination of Ionic and Corinthian. corbel (from Latin corvus, "crow") A projecting bracket used for support, often decoratively carved.

festoon a garland of leaves or ribbons suspended in a loop between two points; festoons are often painted or sculpted, the latter particularly in friezes of the Corinthian order.

Three styles of columns in Roman architecture include the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The debut of arches led to the development of domes like the Pantheon. The idea of arches became a central theme of the Romanesque and Gothic periods.

Composite Order A Roman order; its capital combines the Corinthian acanthus leaf decoration with volutes from the Ionic Order.

The main orders are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. They are Greek in origin but occur in Roman versions. Tuscan is a simple variant of Roman Doric. The Composite capital combines Ionic volutes with Corinthian foliage.

Floor plan for all sytles (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) is basiclly the same example of a floor plan is shown here
Doric Style
- Many Plain Large Columns containing little desgin
- Columns have no base and rest on their supporting platform ...

corinthian orderThe Corinthian Order of Architecture has bell-shaped capitals decorated with acanthus leaves. coronary gardenA Coronary Garden is used to grow flowers which could be used for wreaths and garlands ('like a crown').

Small brackets or consoles along the underside of a Corinthian or Composite cornice. Often also used on an eaves cornice.

- Corinthian Capital from the Tholos of Epidaurus. bracket capital. A century later, in the temple on the Ilissus, published in Stuart and Revett, the abacus has become square.

order - Greek temple architecture was divided into three orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), then the Romans added three more (Composite, Roman Doric, Tuscan).

Corinthian (latest and most ornate Order) Corinthian columns are slender, usually fluted, with capitals elaborately carved with acanthus leaves.
coping - a cap or covering on top of a wall, either flat or sloping, to shed water ...

Dentil - A small square block used in series in Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, and more rarely Doric Cornices.
Depressed arch - A flattened arch, slightly pointed on top. It appears in Late Gothic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Modillions (consoles): the brackets supporting the projecting part of a Corinthian cornice
Patera: a shallow libation bowl, a badge of the pontifices of Rome and a common decorative motif in religious contexts ...

Formalised leaf ornament with thick vein and frilled edge, e. g. on a Corinthian capital.
Achievement
In heraldry, a complete display of armorial bearings of arms. See hatchment also.

MODILLIONS Small brackets or consoles along the underside of a Corinthian or Composite cornice. Often also used on an eaves cornice. Wood or stone given these brackets is called MODILLIONED .

modillioned:
an ornamental bracket used in a series under the cornice of the Corinthian, Composite or Roman Ionic orders
ogee:
a double curve with the shape of an elongated "S" ...

Stalks (eight in number) with two leaves from which rise the helices or spiral scrolls of the Corinthian capital to support the abacus....
« 1 2 (3) 4 5 6 ... 10 » ...

In the beginning: The church of the first four centuries met in privately owned houses (Romans 16:5, 1 Corinthians 16:19, Colossians 4:15, Philemon 2).

A stylized leaf first used in classic Greek and Roman architecture and decoration. A characteristic of the Corinthian capital.
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The most predominant features of Neoclassical Revival buildings are massive columns and decorated capitals, usually Ionic or Corinthian. Other features of this formal style include: ...

ACANTHUS An ornament based on the broad-leafed acanthus plant found in the Mediterranean; part of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, etc., varying primarily in details of the capital) as documented by Andrea Palladio and other architects of the Italian Renaissance (14th-17th centuries).

Greek Doric capitals are fluted and plain, Roman Doric capitals are smooth and plain, Ionic capitals have a rams horns at all four corners, and a Corinthian capital is highly decorative with curling acanthus leaves.

The three types of columns normally seen on greek revival house plans are the Doric (which has plain capitals), the Ionic (which has scroll-like spiral called volutes), and the corinthian (which has decorative leaves).

The Corinthian order, a later development, consists of Ionic capitals elaborated with acanthus leaves. It has the advantage of having four identical faces and is therefore more suitable for use at corners than was the Ionic order.

Roman temples for the exterior coupled with a striking steeple evoking medieval references, leading into a light, elegant interior characterized by a flattened barrel vault in the nave and delicate domes in the side aisles supported by Corinthian ...

are what are called the orders of architecture, by which term are understood certain modes of proportioning and decorating the column and its superimposed entablature. The Greeks had three orders, called respectively the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.

of these examples exhibit federal-style balustrades, and all include fanlights above their doors, with classical porticos covering the entryways.
21-22. New Bedford, MA. William H. Allen house, c.1831.The double columns are fluted with Corinthian ...

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