Doric Order
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Doric order
The first and simplest of the orders, developed by the Dorian Greeks, consisting of relatively short shafts with flutes meeting with a sharp arris, simple undecorated capital, a square abacus, and no base. The entablature consists of a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice. The corona contained mutules in the soffit.
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Doric order
Doric order:a, Greek; b, Roman
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Doric Order
one of the three principal Greek architectural orders. It developed in the Dorian region of ancient Greece in the period in which stone began to be used in the construction of temples and other public buildings. The Doric order was used as early as 600-590 B.C. in the first stone buildings on mainland Greece and in the Dorian colonies, for example, the Temple of Artemis, built at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. in Kerkira. The Doric order, the most severe and massive of the architectural orders, became the most important element of architectural composition in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. and the main vehicle of artistic expressiveness in the architecture of the late archaic and classical periods.
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