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The Ionic Entablature

The entablature of the Ionic order is lighter in appearance than that of the Doric. It has a continuous frieze, rather than the metopes and triglyphs of the Doric frieze. The architrave is stepped, unlike the flat architrave of the Doric order.
 
 
left A view (from the northeast) of the entablature on 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.