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| The Orders of Architecture > The Doric Order > The Ionic Order > 2 > 3 > 4 | |
| Read the text and study the diagram and photograph below, then move on to page 4. | |
| The Ionic Column | |
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The Ionic column is taller and more slender than the Doric column. The capital of the Ionic column has a volute, a spiral scroll form that sits below the narrow abacus. The Ionic column has a base. |
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| above A view (from the northeast) of the podium and entrance stairs of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Rome, Italy. (c.40 B.C.) | |
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© Elizabeth Rankin and Amanda Skeet, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, 2004.
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