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Side view of the church of San Lorenzo, built on the site of the temple of Antoninus and Faustina in Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Ionic order, Italy, Rome, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (Rome), Views

Elevation, reconstruction and plan of arches at the Divo Claudio temple complex, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Temple of Divo Claudio (Rome)

Reconstruction of entablature corner and details of Ionic column from the temple of Portunus, formerly called temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Temple of Portunus / Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome)

Drawing of helix and details of Ionic column base from the temple of Portunus, formerly called temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Temple of Portunus / Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome)

Lateral section and longitudinal section of the temple of Portunus, formerly called temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome, Temple of Portunus / Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome)

Reconstruction and architectural features (entablature, triglyphs and guttae) of the Ionic columns of the second level of the theatre of Marcellus in Rome.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Marcellus (Rome), Ancient theatres, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Reconstruction and architectural features (entablature, triglyphs and guttae) of the Ionic columns of the second level of the theatre of Marcellus in Rome.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Marcellus (Rome), Ancient theatres, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Reconstruction and architectural features (entablature, triglyphs and guttae) of the Ionic columns of the second level of the theatre of Marcellus in Rome.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Marcellus (Rome), Ancient theatres, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Rome

Fragment of column capital and reliefs from Sparta.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Ionic order, Laconia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Sparta

Reconstruction and details of architectural features of columns, Megalopolis.

Tags: Agora of Megalopolis, Ancient theatre of Megalopolis, Ancient theatres, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Greece, Ionic order, Megalopoli, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Architectural details of one of the Ionic columns from the cella of the temple. 4: Fragment of the ceiling where the column capital meets the panel.

Tags: Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Elis, Greece, Ionic order, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae: Reconstruction, ceiling plan, plan and section of architectural features of Ionic column from the cella of the temple.

Tags: Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Elis, Greece, Ionic order, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Doric column capital. Ionic column capital.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Ionic order

Ionic capital with shaft.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Ionic order

Figure from Athenian red-figure vase with trefoil plant. According to tradition, the curling stem of a species of trefoil cpmmon in Greece gave inspiration to the volute seen in Ionic capitals.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Ionic order, Plants

Figure from Athenian red-figure vase, holding trefoil shoot. According to tradition, the curling stem of a species of trefoil cpmmon in Greece gave inspiration to the volute seen in Ionic capitals.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Ionic order, Plants

Antiquities from Athens: 1. Ionic column capital from the inner peristyle of the Propylaea of the Acropolis. 2. Drawings of the entablature, side view and section of a column capital from the inner peristyle of the Acropolis Propylaea. Plan of Ionic column, drawings of the pedestal. 3. Inscriptions on a metope found in the ancient Agora of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient agorae, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Reliefs, Sculptures

Erechtheion: View of the north propylon from the east.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Ruins, Views

View of the Erechtheion from the south. On the right Mount Lycabettus.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Ruins

Part of the Propylae of the Acropolis of Athens and the Temple of Athena Nike. In the foreground the pedestal of Agrippa. In the background the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Ionic order, Monument of Agrippa, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Ruins, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), Views

View of the Tomb of Theron in Agrigento, Sicily.

Tags: Agrigento, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Ionic order, Italy, Plans and drawings, Sicily, Southern Italy, Tomb of Theron (Agrigento)

The Tomb of Theron in Agrigento, Sicily: Fig. 1. Half plan of the tomb. Fir. 2. Drawing of the capital of the columns, the column and the entablature. Fig. 3. Drawing of one of the windows. Fig. 4. The mouldings of the windows.

Tags: Agrigento, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Greek colonies, Ionic order, Italy, Sicily, Southern Italy, Tomb of Theron (Agrigento)

Drawings of some architectural and decorative elements of Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

View of Erechtheion. Drawings of some architectural and decorative elements of the monument.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

View of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra). Drawing of the epistyle. Plan of the monument. The porch of Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) in Athens (Β). Plan of the monument. Drawing of the entablature.

Tags: Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

The Caryatides, Erechtheion: 1. South view. 2. Entablature at the corner. 3. Crepidoma and base of the column. 4. Bottom view of the ceiling.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

1 and 2. View of capital and base of capital from Erechtheion, Athens. 3 and 4. Views of bases of columns from Erechtheion. 5. Ionian capital from Eleusis. 6 and 7. Capital and base of capital from the Theater of Marcellus, Rome. 7 and 9. Capital and base of the capital from the Temple of Portunus, Rome.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Ancient theatre of Marcellus (Rome), Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capitals (architecture), Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Italy, Roman art, Roman theatres, Rome, Temple of Portunus / Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome), Theatres

Erechtheion: 1. View of Ionic capital. 2 and 3. Section plans of the helix of Ionic capital. 4. Section plan of the capital. 5. Side view of Ionian capital. 6. Bottom view of Ionian capital. 7. Bottom view of Ionian capital at the corner.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capitals (architecture), Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Erechtheion: 1. View and details of the window. 2. View of the entablature of the west side. 3. Column of the antae. 4. Geison.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Attica, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

West view of Erechtheion.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Plan of Erechtheion. View of the east side of the Temple.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Roman colonnade close to the Choregic monument of Lysicrates: Fig. 1: The base, capital, architrave and frieze. Fig. 2: Profile of the internal face of the architrave.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Roman colonnade close to the Choregic monument of Lysicrates: Fig. 1: Elevation of the columns. Fig.2: Plan of ditto. Fig.3: Plan of the capital. Fig. 4: Flank of the capital. Fig. 5: Section through the front of ditto. Fig. 6: Section through the flank of ditto. Fig.7: The spiral line of the volute, by a larger scale. Fig. 8: The section of the volute and abacus, which, by a mistake, has been put upside down. Fig. 9: Eye of the volute.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Erechtheion: The plan reversed, and the necessary sections of the capitals.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Attica, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Erechtheion: Fig. 1. Capital, Base, and Entablature of the Portico. Fig. 2. The Capital and Base of the Antae. Fig. 3. Profile of the moulding under the Corona, with the ornament carved on it. Fig. 4. The same viewed from below, to shew the effect of the flower on the Angle.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Architectural orders of ancient Greek temples.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthian order, Doric order, Ionic order

Tables showing the characteristic features of the Doric, Ionian and Corinthian order.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Architectural features from the Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Helix of Ionian capital from the Temple of Athena Nike.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Ionic order, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

The Erechtheion: Front elevation of the angular capitals of the columns to the side portico.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order

Temple of Apollo in Didyma: The Contents of the foregoing Plate shaded, with a Section through the external Architrave of the Dipteros, also its internal Face and that of the Frize annexed. Fig. I: The Plan of the Capital…Fig. II: The Profile of the Capital. Fig. III: A Section through the Profile of the Capital. Fig. IV: A Section through the Front of the Capital. Fig. V: The Architrave of the internal Columns of the Diptero with the Frize, which supported the Lacunaria. Fig. VI: The Contour of the Volute, with as many of its Measures as could be collected.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Didim / anc. Didyma, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey

Temple of Apollo in Didyma: Fig. I: The Plan of the Capital…Fig. II: The Profile of the Capital. Fig. III: A Section through the Profile of the Capital. Fig. IV: A Section through the Front of the Capital. Fig. V: The Architrave of the internal Columns of the Diptero with the Frize, which supported the Lacunaria. Fig. VI: The Contour of the Volute, with as many of its Measures as could be collected.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Didim / anc. Didyma, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey

Temple of Apollo in Didyma: Fig. I: The uppermost Step, Base, and lower part of the external Columns of the Dipteros. Fig. II: The Capital and Architrave, with the upper part of the Shaft of the Column (shaded drawing).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Didim / anc. Didyma, Ionic order, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey

Temple of Apollo in Didyma: Fig. I: The uppermost Step, Base, and lower part of the external Columns of the Dipteros. Fig. II: The Capital and Architrave, with the upper part of the Shaft of the Column.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Didim / anc. Didyma, Ionia, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Didyma), Turkey

Capital from the temple of Athena Polias in Priene: The Plan, Elevation of the Profile, and Section of the Capital, shaded; Also the Abacus of the Capital and the Section on a larger Scale…Fig. I: The Plan of the Capital…Fig. II: An Elevation of the Profile of the Capital. Fig.III: A Section through the Profile of the Capital. Fig.IV: A Section through the Front of the Capital. Fig. V: The Contour of the Volute… Fig. VI: A Section through the Torus of the Base, in which the Flutings and Profile are distinctly marked.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Ionia, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Priene, Temple of Athena Polias (Priene), Turkey

Capital from the temple of Athena Polias in Priene: Fig. I: The Plan of the Capital…Fig. II: An Elevation of the Profile of the Capital. Fig.III: A Section through the Profile of the Capital. Fig.IV: A Section through the Front of the Capital. Fig. V: The Contour of the Volute… Fig. VI: A Section through the Torus of the Base, in which the Flutings and Profile are distinctly marked.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Ionia, Ionic order, Plans and drawings, Priene, Temple of Athena Polias (Priene), Turkey

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