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24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Principal porch or entrance to Greek temple
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Portico
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Range of columns supporting arches or entablature
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Colonnade
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Triangular gable across portico,door, etc.
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Pediment
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Space inside pediment. Ideal for bold sculpture
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Tympanum
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top of an Order, horizontally divided
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Entablature
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any crowning projection
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Cornice
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Middle section of Classic entablature
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Frieze
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Chief beam
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Architrave
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Spaces between 2 tryglyphs on a doric frieze
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metope
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vertical blocks, aligned over and between each column
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Tryglyphs
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Sculptural carving, embossing, or casting that projects very little from background
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Bas Relief
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Square teeth-like projections used to decorate eaves
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Egg+Dart, Dentil
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Supporting pillar with base, cylindrical shaft, and capital
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Column
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head or crowning feature of column or pilaster
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Capital
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main body of column, pilaster or pier between capital + base
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Shaft
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lowest part of structure, like column
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Base
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Shallow vertical grooves on shaft of column
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Flute
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oldest, plainest of three orders, preferred for western and mainland
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Doric
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Cylindrical shaft with volute, fluted columns and prominent volutes
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Ionic
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shaft with acanthus leaves decorating the capital on top
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Corinthian
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Human figure, functioning as pier
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Caryatid
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Flat-faced representation of column, projecting from a wall
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Pilaster
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platform colonnades of columns are placed
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Stylobate
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used to describe the remaining steps of platform beneath stylobate and above leveling course
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Stereobate
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