Art History 113 - Art Matters

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The Orders of Architecture > The Doric Order > 2

Read the text and scroll down to study the photographs below then move on to page 2.
 

The Doric Order: Introduction

It is the way in which the column and entablature are formed and decorated that characterises the different orders or styles of architecture.
 
Below The western facade and northern flank of the Parthenon in the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. (5th century BC)

below Detail of the architrave of the northern side of the Parthenon from the inner side.

 

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© Elizabeth Rankin and Amanda Skeet, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, 2004.