To the forms of their columns are due the names of the three orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, of which the Doric was the first to arise, and in early times. Thus a third architectural order, distinguished by its capital, was produced out of the two other orders. The other members which are placed above the columns, are, for Corinthian columns, composed either of the Doric proportions or according to the Ionic usages for the Corinthian order never had any scheme peculiar to itself for its cornices or other ornaments, but may have mutules in the coronae and guttae on the architraves according to the triglyph system of the Doric style, or, according to Ionic practices, it may be arranged with a frieze adorned with sculptures and accompanied with dentils and coronae.ģ. Hence, as two thirds are added in Corinthian capitals, their tallness gives a more slender appearance to the columns themselves.Ģ. This is because the height of the Ionic capital is only one third of the thickness of the column, while that of the Corinthian is the entire thickness of the shaft. CORINTHIAN columns are, excepting in their capitals of the same proportions in all respects as Ionic but the height of their capitals gives them proportionately a taller and more slender effect. CHAPTER I: THE ORIGINS OF THE THREE ORDERS, AND THE PROPORTIONS OF THE CORINTHIAN CAPITALġ.
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