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Glossary
Tuscan Order
The Tuscan Order which is the simplest of all the orders, is distinguished by the following:
- Unfluted columns
- Plain entablatures
- Unadorned capitals and bases
- Columns usually widely spaced and of short proportions
The Orders of classical architecture were formalized by the Greeks and applied to the design and proportion of buildings used the post-and-lintel, or column and entablature construction
The Doric Order emerged in the sixth century BC, and was followed by the Ionic Order in the east Greek territories of Anatolia. ...
The Doric Order of architecture was little used by the Romans in Italy. The Tuscan order was a simplified version with base, unfluted shaft and simply molded capital.
- British Museum Pattern Books: Roman Designs, by Eva Wilson, 1999
The other four classical orders are Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite
Found in derivatives of Classical Greek and Roman architecture, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: Frank Goodyear Mausoleum
- Automobile Club of Buffalo
- Charles W. Goodyear House
- Tuscan column
- Knox House
- 24 Chapin Pkwy.
- 165 Chapin Pkwy.
- Campanile Apartments
- Our Lady of Victory Basilica
- Lackawanna Public Library
- 180 Linwood Avenue
- 232 Linwood Avenue
- 85 Depew Ave. - Example #1
- 85 Depew Ave. - Example #2
Other examples:
- 2 Drawings from Andrea Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture
- Coliseum, Rome, Italy
- Drawing from Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Books, 1965)
- St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina
- 45 Portland Place, London, England
- Hotel de Villes (City Hall), Nyon, Switzerland
