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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.
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Corinthian order - classical fluted columns, slender with ornate capitals decorated with stylized leaves
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Corinthian Order -- Most ornate classical order. Characterized by a capital with ornamental acanthus leaves and curled fern shoots.

Corinthian Order
The most ornate of the five classical orders, characterized by a slender fluted column having an ornate, bell-shaped capital decorated with acanthus leaves.
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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 order
The last of the three Greek orders, similar to the Ionic, but with the capital decorated with carvings of the acanthus leaf.
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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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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 last Greek order; similar to the Ionic order except the capital is decorated with carvings of acanthus leaves ...

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. The Corinthian capitals have flowers and leaves below a small scroll.

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.

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

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The Romans used the Corinthian order more than the Greeks. cornice Overhanging edge of a sloping roof. crossing The point at which the transepts cross the nave of a church. cruciform Cross-shaped.

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.

Greek architecture used the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders for building the temples. Structures were often built with stones or mud bricks.

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').

Ten times the height of its width, the Corinthian order is the slenderest of all decorative columns. Found on the Temple of Mars Ultar, this style of architectual column was adapted in the middle of the fourth century BC.

acanthus A plant whose leaf is used to decorate the capital of the Corinthian order, also found in moldings.
acroterion An ornamental projection at the corner or peak of a roof; or the base that supports the ornament.

In about the first century BC, the Romans combined the Ionic and the Corinthian orders of architecture to create a composite style.
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Composite
Developed by the Romans, the composite is a mixture of the ionic and corinthian orders. Usually ten-and-a-half diameters in height, the order was richly ornate and was mainly used on triumphal arches.

Composite Capital (order) - An order consisting of a hybrid of Corinthian and Ionic elements, normally with the acanthus motifs of the Corinthian order surmounted by Ionic volutes at the corners.

as in the Doric capital; concave, as in the bell of the Corinthian capital; or bracketed out, as in the Ionic capital. These are the three principal types on which all capitals are based. The capitals of Greek, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders are ...

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.

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