Nearly coeval with the Doric was the Ionic order, invented by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Ironsand exists in consolidated layers at the cliff called Doric Rock. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
Of these the Doric is the simplest and the Corinthian the most elaborate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
He was struck by what Plato would have called the Doric strain in the harmonies of outline and colour. From Wordnik.com. [Roads from Rome] Reference
Tarquinii, the modern Corneto, where vases in the most archaic style, resembling those of Corinth, or those called Doric, have been found. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The styles of portals are Doric, Ionic, and Attic. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Doric façade, and not much else that is remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Silenus, on the proportions of Doric structures, 198. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
In the next I shall explain the proportions of Doric and. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Mars, temple should be Doric, 15; site of temple of, 31. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Doric temple Mr. Corcoran had erected for his first Louise. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Attic doorways are built with the same proportions as Doric. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Identical with this in form is the chiton worn by Doric women. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Courts of Justice, a Doric building, whose interior is arranged in. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Fans can leave flowers and notes at the Doric-style "" Temple Diana. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Day At The Diana Memorial] Reference
Quirinus, which is Doric, and the temple of Diana at Ephesus, planned by. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The redwoods of the West become columns of Doric eloquence and simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Greeks of Asia Minor never really understood the austere ideal of Doric art. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The portico is very grand, and is a double row of Doric pillars, forty feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
In the Doric, the symmetrical proportions are distinguished by the following rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Hercules, Doric order appropriate to, 15; site of temple of, 31; cellae of temple of, 53. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
For this reason, the ancients appear to have avoided the scheme of the Doric order in their temples. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Melos is of a very pale red; that of vases of the Doric or Corinthian style is of a pale lemon color. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Among the warlike dances particularly adapted to the Doric character, was the oldest and that most in favor. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Ammanati added the wings, and enclosed the beautiful court opposite the middle entrance with Doric, Ionic, and. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The base is 50 ft.sq. and 24 ft. high; on this stands a Doric column, 25 ft. in diameter at the base and 130 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They are chiefly ornaments from the Parthenon, a Doric temple built in the time of Pericles, B.C. 450, by Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The scheme of triglyphs and mutules in Doric buildings was, therefore, the imitative device that I have described. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The present massive buildings and additions are of dressed native gray limestone, in the Doric style of architecture. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Thus the Doric column, as used in buildings, began to exhibit the proportions, strength, and beauty of the body of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The others are Doric, and, in the ease of these, "Sculptures of the Exterior Frieze" refers, of course, to sculptured metopes. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
If the doorways are to be of the Ionic style, the height of the aperture should be reached in the same manner as in the Doric. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Hence, if the columns are to be of the Doric order, let their height, including the capital, be measured off into fifteen parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
He, for instance, after getting together a supply of marble for the construction of a Doric temple, changed his mind and built an. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Afterwards Silenus published a book on the proportions of Doric structures; Theodorus, on the Doric temple of Juno which is in Samos. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
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