Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Elevation Classical Ionic Temple. Hexastyle. The Ionic order of Greek architecture is characterized by column with scroll shapes on either side of the capital (the capital is the top of the column)

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Ionic angle capital. The Ionic order of Greek architecture is characterized by column with scroll shapes on either side of the capital (the capital is the top of the column)

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Greek Architecture. Ionic Base. The Temple of Minerva, Priene. Minerva was the Roman Goddess of wisdom, patroness of the arts and trades, sprung fully armed from the head of Jupiter. She is identified with

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art (c3) Detail Classical Details of a door in the Erechtheum, the Temple of Athena built 421-405 BC on the Acropolis at Athens. The Ionic capitals are considered to be the most beautiful produced in the course of An

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Capital (The head of a pillar or column) from the Tower of the Winds, Athens. c100-50 BC. This tower, known as the Horologion ("Timepiece") is an octagonal structure, 42 feet high and 26 feet i

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art (c3) Detail Classical Door of the Erechtheum, the Temple of Athena built 421-405 BC on the Acropolis at Athens. The Ionic capitals are considered to be the most beautiful produced in the course of Ancient Greek

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Horizontal section of Ionic column. The Ionic order of Greek architecture is characterized by columns with scroll shapes on either side of the capital (the capital is the top of the column)

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art (c3) Detail Classical Northern portico of the Erechtheum, the Temple of Athena built 421-405 BC on the Acropolis at Athens. The Ionic capitals are considered to be the most beautiful produced in the course of Anc

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Antefix from the Parthenon. The Parthenon is the chief temple of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis above Athens and is the best extant example of the Doric order. The Doric style or "order" o

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Base of column. Temple on the IIissus.