Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Doric capital (The head of a pillar or column) The Doric style or "order" of architecture is the oldest, simplest and sturdiest of Greek architecture. horizontal

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Capital (The head of a pillar or column) from the Temple of the Didymaean Apollo near Miletus. acanthus leaf, palm tree, palmetto, flora, myth, mythic, mythology, Greek, vertical

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Antae Capital. (The head of a pillar or column) Eleusis, a city to the west of Ancient Athens, now an industrial suburb of modern Athens. It was the sight of secret rituals called the Eleusinian

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Perspective Illustration Classical View of the Parthenon. (Finished 438 BC under Pericles, built by Ictinus and Callicrates. ) The Parthenon is the chief temple of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis above Athens

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Ionic capital. 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 the Greek

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Corinthian Pilaster A pilaster is a rectangular, decorative column that projects beyond the surface of the wall. Generally it serves no structural purpose and serves mainly to decorate. Corinth

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Sideview of Ionic capitals. 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 (c3) Perspective Illustration Classical North-eastern view 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

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Ionic column. 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 (base, capital & entablature) Classical Ionic order. Temple of Athene (Minerva) at Priene. The Ionic order of Greek architecture is characterized by column with scroll shapes on either side of the capital

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Painted capital (The head of a pillar or column) of a Doric column. The Doric style or "order" of architecture is the oldest, simplest and sturdiest of Greek architecture. [Patterns & Motifs]

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Painted Doric antae capital (The head of a pillar or column) The Doric style or "order" of architecture is the oldest, simplest and sturdiest of Greek architecture. [Patterns & Motifs]

Architecture - Ancient Greece - line art Detail Classical Window in the Propylaea, Athens.