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...will be open until Commencement. The exhibition will be of great interest as the department is new and did not get fairly started before this year. Most of the work is by first year students and is in elementary architectural drawing. The subjects of the plates are the Doric, Onic and Corinthian orders and some small buildings, - all taken from classic examples. The work is very creditable for first year students. Several students have taken the second year course in original design. The artistic rendering of the drawings is particularly attractive. Besides these there are numerous small plates and sketches...
...said that there was much confusion in the popular idea of orders. Many persons think that different styles are different orders, while in reality the orders are only various expressions of the same style. There are only three distinct orders,- the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian. All others are variations of these. The variations are endless in number and admit of as great changes as any one can desire. The restrictions are not in any sense bonds, but have really done more to bring about variety of design than to limit...
...smallest diameter must always be five-sixths of the greatest, and there are various other points which the orders have in common. The exact distinctions between the orders are necessarily technical, but in general the orders may be distinguished by the difference in the caps of the columns. The Doric is the simplest, then comes the Ionic increasing in strength and richness, and finally, most massive and rich of all, the Corinthian...
...feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...most striking influence of Assyrian as well as Egyptian art can be traced in the archaic sculpture and bas-reliefs of Greece. Greek vases have been found, the figures on which are known to have been copied directly from Egyptian monuments, and the famous Doric Column is but a development of a form common in Assyrian architecture. It was not in the form alone that foreign influence is traced in Greek art; many of the ideas one derived from the Assyrian and Egyptian mythology...