The shaft had twenty sides.
Ancient greek doric columns.
It was developed by one of the greek races the dorians.
The doric columns had a crown or capital made of a circle topped by a square.
Many famous ancient greek monuments and buildings are still observed to have doric column.
The oldest simplest and most massive of the three greek orders is the doric which was applied to temples beginning in the 7th century b c.
The ancient greeks were wonderful architects.
A square abacus connects the capital to the entablature.
The doric columns were used mainly during the archaic period of ancient greece 750 to 480 b c and were used principally on mainland structures.
The 19th century architects used doric columns to recreate the grandeur of the site where the first president of the united states was sworn in.
In addition to the doric columns the other two were the ionic and the corinthian.
In greece the doric column was placed directly on the pavement or floor without benefit of a base.
Their smooth round capitals are simple and plain compared to the other two greek orders.
In the ancient greek architecture three orders of columns were seen.
The doric style was the simplest and the oldest among the three.
It became popular in the archaic period roughly 750 480 bce and replaced the previous.
Of less grandeur is the world war i memorial shown on this page.
In ancient greece doric columns were stouter than those of the ionic or corinthian orders.
Built in 1931 in washington dc it is a small circular monument inspired by the architecture of the doric temple in ancient greece.
As shown in figure 2 columns are placed close together and are often without bases.
The doric order later spread across greece and into sicily where it was the chief order for monumental architecture for 800 years.
The other two canonical orders were the ionic and the corinthian the doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of columns originating in the western doric region of greece it is the earliest and in its essence the simplest of the orders though still with complex.
There was the stylish doric the ionic with its scrolls and the fancy corinthian.
Early greeks were no doubt aware of the use of stone columns with bases and capitals in ancient egyptian architecture and that of other near eastern cultures although there they were mostly used in interiors.
Ionic columns the ionic column is identified by the scroll at the top as seen on the columns of the the temple of athena nike in athens and other temples of the acropolis.
Their shafts are sculpted with concave curves called flutes.
Doric columns in ancient greece are an important element of architecture.
