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The Order of the Orders

The Order of the Orders. Naming of parts of classical column and entablature, from John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture , 1964. The Five Orders, from Serlio, Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura et Prospettiva , 1545. Lion Gate, Mycenae, 14th century BC.

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The Order of the Orders

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  1. The Order of the Orders

  2. Naming of parts of classical column and entablature, from John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1964

  3. The Five Orders, from Serlio, Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura et Prospettiva, 1545

  4. Lion Gate, Mycenae,14th century BC

  5. The Greek Doric Order: The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 447-431BC

  6. Sir William Chambers, A Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759

  7. The Ionic Order:The Erectheum, Acropolis, Athens, 421-4-5BC

  8. The Corinthian Order: Temple of Apollo, Bassae, 5th century BC

  9. Acanthus mollis

  10. Personification of the Orders, from John Shute, The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, 1563 Doric: Hercules Ionic: Hera Corinthian: Aphrodite

  11. Semi-finished monolithic shafts abandoned in the cipollino quarries at Kylindri. Lengths range from 11.85 to 12.05 metres(from Mark Wilson Jones, Princples of Roman Architecture, Yale University Press, 2000)

  12. Unfinished column scored for fluting (Wilson Jones)

  13. Setting out flutes (Wilson Jones)

  14. The method described by Vitruvius for checking a flute

  15. Scratched template for entasis setting out, on north wall of Temple of Apollo at Didyma, ?3rd century BC. Vertical scale 1:16(Wilson Jones)

  16. Procedure for shaping and fluting monolithic column (conjectural diagram by Wilson Jones)

  17. Shaping entasis and flutes on column made of sections (Wilson Jones)

  18. The Coliseum, Rome, after 72AD

  19. Sta. Costanza, Rome, c.337-350

  20. The Carolingian ‘Renaissance’ (Emperor Charlemagne c.742-814): Abbey Gatehouse, Lorsch, c.790

  21. S. Miniato al Monte, Florence, 11th century and later

  22. S. Miniato al Monte, plan (from John Onians, Bearers of Meaning, Cambridge University Press, 1988

  23. Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence,

  24. Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 1439-1501, Capitals and heads

  25. Antonio Sansovino, The Mint (left) and Library (right), Venice, 1537

  26. St Paul, Covent Garden, by Inigo Jones, 1630

  27. The Five Orders by Claude Perrault, from Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Ancients, 1683

  28. Personified entablatures, by J. F. Blondel, Cours d’Architecture, 1771-7

  29. St George, Bloomsbury, Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1716-31

  30. Frontispiece to Essai sur l’Architecture, 1753 by Marc-Antoine LaugierThe primitive hut as the origin of architecture

  31. James ‘Athenian’ Stuart (1713-88) Self-portrait drawing the Erectheum in 1751

  32. The Ionic Order of the Erectheum, engraving from Stuart & Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, Vol.II, 1789

  33. The Organ Loft, Chapel, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, by James Stuart, 1779

  34. St Pancras New Church, Euston Road, by H. & W.H. Inwood, 1819-22

  35. CORNICE FRIEZE ARCHITRAVE CAPITAL SHAFT BASE PEDESTAL

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