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The Ionic column is considerably more complex than the Doric or Tuscan. It usually has a base and the shaft is often fluted. On the top is a capital in the characteristic shape of a scroll, called a volute, or scroll, at the four corners. The height-to-thickness ratio is around 9:1. Due to the more refined proportions and scroll capitals, the Ionic column is sometimes associated with academic buildings.
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The hotel complex Antares Olimpo-Le Terrazze is located along the Sicilian Ionic coast, on a hill overlooking Letojanni and just few km. from Taormina: a fantastic position, with a stunning panoramic view over Taormina Bay. All single hotels of the complex are connected with a panoramic lift; a conventioned equipped beach is just approx. 300 mts distance and is easily reachable with a lift carved in the rocky hill and under a short gallery.
Il complesso alberghiero Antares Olimpo Le Terrazze è situato lungo la costa Ionica della Sicilia, sulla collina che sovrasta Letojanni a pochi chilometri da Taormina Centro: splendida posizione dalla quale si può godere una fantastica vista panoramica sulla Baia di Taormina.
Letojanni is a comune (municipality), and coastal resort in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 32 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,634 and an area of 6.8 km².Letojanni borders the following municipalities: Castelmola, Forza d'Agrò, Gallodoro, Mongiuffi Melia, Taormina.Main economic activities are agriculture and fishing. Products mostly cultivated are corn, olives, wine-grapes, almonds, lemons, mulberries, fruit. Interesting is the yearly manifestation "Agosto a Letojanni" (August at Letojanni) in which the festival of fish and water-melon and the parade of the Sicilian cart take place. It is also to underline the strong inclination of territory to tourism. In fact in the place there is a good receptive offer both hotel and camping supplied with facilities fit to receive very many tourists especially during summer.The etymology of Letojanni is a mixture of Latin and Arabic. The place-name derives in fact from Latin Laetum,that is "rich", and from Arabic Ayn, that means "spring". There are not many information about origin of the little town but it is known that until half of the XVIII century it has been under the jurisdiction of Gallodoro town. In the XIX century it was involved in a high economic increase and in 1880 it gained administrative equality with Gallodoro. The earthquake of 1908 damaged some of its buildings later rebuilt. In 1952 it became an independent commune. The most interesting monuments are the Parish Church in neogothic style, rebuilt in 1929 and keeps inside a beautiful picture of Piety of 1700. An important figure original of Letojanni is the famous surgeon Francesco Durante (1844-1934), who was teacher of surgery of the joints and bony at the University of Studies of Roma and he was together with Guido Baccelli founder of the General hospital of Roma and finally he was also named senator of the Reign.
Letojanni è un comune italiano di 2.760 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.Distante 32 km da Messina e 45 km da Catania, la cittadina fa parte del comprensorio turistico di Taormina.Sino alla metà dell'Ottocento Letojanni fungeva da marina, o borgo dei pescatori, del comune di Gallodoro; la costruzione di una strada provinciale e successivamente della ferrovia favorirono lo sviluppo del borgo, al punto che nel 1879 la sede comunale fu trasferita da Gallodoro a Letojanni, e il comune prese il nome di Letojanni-Gallodoro. Nel 1952 le due località furono separate..Ricco di infrastrutture alberghiere in estate ospita innumerevoli turisti
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Composite Ionic capital. The impost block has palmettes. From 5th century AD.
Byzantine Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Attention!: According to Google Streetview the columns were painted vivid yellow sometime between June and September 2019.
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In downtown Cleveland, Ohio, on May 9th, 2020, on the north side of Frankfort Avenue, west of West 6th Street.
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The Ionic column is typically identified by its capital, which includes large paired spiral scrolls, or volutes. It has the tallest base of the three classic Greek orders.
The Ionic Temple at Rievaulx Terrace, built at the northern end of the terrace in the 1750s, believed to have been designed by Sir Thomas Robinson, based on the Maison Carree, in Nimes.
The interior was used as a dining room and is elaborately decorated, with a frescoed ceiling with mytholgical scenes.
Rievaulx Terrace forms a natural viewing platform above the Ryedale Valley, home to Rievaulx Abbey. The potential for the hillside to be used as a terrace was spotted by Thomas Duncombe II in the mid-18th century.
He commissioned a landscaper to compose the terrace between 1749 and 1757, with temples at either end and views, down through gaps cut in the trees, of the abbey.
There are two temples on the terrace, the Tuscan Temple and the Ionic Temple, the latter of which served as a kitchen and dining room for guests of the Duncombe family who came to visit.
The National Trust now look after the terrace and the temples, giving visitors the chance to experience the site as others did centuries ago.
38 South Winooski Avenue (facing Cherry Street), Burlington, Vermont USA • An elaborate portico supported by six fluted columns, topped with Ionic capitols; plus a distinctive Bell Tower (added in 1845), identifies the First Congregational Church. Architect: Henry Searle, modeled on the plan of St. Pancras church, in London, England. George Perkins Marsh suggested as a model for the tower the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece.
☞ For some dates & historical details, I am indebted to the Chittenden County Historical Society, and their fine, three volume set: Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods: Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1997;Vol. III, 2003. David J. Blow, author; Lillian Baker Carlisle, Editor; Sarah L. Dopp, photographs.
This fallen Ionic column capital lies amidst other architectural fragments in the ruined ancient city of Ephesus, near Selçuk in modern day Turkey.
The Ionic Temple was built in the mid 1700s as a banqueting house by the owner of Duncombe Park, a few miles away. It is based on the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome.
Dodona (Doric Greek: Δωδώνᾱ, Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη,[1] Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was an oracle devoted to a Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione, who was joined and partly supplanted in historical times by the Greek deity Zeus.
The shrine of Dodona was regarded as the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the second millennium BCE according to Herodotus. Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the oracle of Delphi in prestige. Priestesses and priests in the sacred grove interpreted the rustling of the oak (or beech) leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken. According to a new interpretation, the oracular sound originated from bronze objects hanging from oak branches and sounded with the wind blowing, similar to a wind chime.[2] Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated.[3] The oracle was first under the control of the Thesprotians before it passed into the hands of the Molossians.[4] It remained an important religious sanctuary until the rise of Christianity during the Late Roman era.
Location: Dodoni, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
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A rather splendid Ionic order column. Have I just come back from Rome or Greece? Err no, this is the entrance to the Junior Library in Lancaster. I don't think you'll see a finer set of Ionic volutes!
There's not a lot of good Ionian columns in Lancaster - plenty of plain Doric style and a lot of Ionian/Corinthian 'composite' style - these have the volutes of the Ionian order but at 45-degrees to the entablature combined with the acanthus leaf decoration of the Corinthian order. Check out Lancaster Town Hall or the old Customs House (Maritime Museum) for examples of this.
Also here we have some fine flutings and the egg-and-dart motif between the volutes, on the abacus, and on the frieze above.
How did I become a classical architecture nerd?
D. Mertens (1977). Fig. 72 in: BARLETTA, Barbara (2001). The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 79245
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Metapontum, Temple D (Building) ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Od. 9.1", "denarius")
Context: Metapontum
Type: Temple
Summary: Ionic temple situated at the north-east border of the religious sanctuary of the city.
Date: ca. 475 BC
Dimensions:
The maximum dimensions of the foundations measure ca. 17.90 m. x 41.60 m. An axial mass for the temple of 14.75 m. x 38.40 m. is proposed. The excavators suggest that the island ionic/attic foot of 29.4 cm. was the unit of measurement used throughout, resulting in overall dimensions for the temple of 50 x 130 F. The maximum width of the cella building measures ca. 8.12 m. The column height is estimated at between 5.97 m. and 6.25 m., with a lower column diameter of 67.6 cm. - 70.8 cm. Thus, the proportion of lower column diameter:column height = 9:1. The relationship of the lower column diameter to the interaxial spacing is expressed in the proportion 1:3, resulting in a distance of ca. 2.0 m. - 2.10 m., or 6 7/8 F. The three central intercolumniations were widened at the facade to 7 9/16 F.
Region: Lucania; Period: Early Classical
Architectural Order: Ionic
Plan: Very little is preserved of the temple in situ: the SW corner and parts of the southern and western foundations of the cella, and the lowest foundation block of the NW corner. However, the excavators suggest the following plan on the basis of a reconstruction of the dimensions of the foundations: the temple was peripteral, and was extremely long and narrow with the unusual number of 8 x 20 columns. The temple was pseudodipteral, with wide ptera. The cella building was very simple, consisting of a naos and elongated pronaos, with no columns in the pronaos, no antae, and neither opisthodomos nor adyton. The pronaos was not open for its entire width, but was apparently entered through a door, lending a megaron-like aspect to the cella building. There were no columns inside the cella. The cella building was aligned with the third column along the flanks of the peristasis.
Date Description:
The building period of the foundations cannot be later than ca. 475 B.C., based on ceramic evidence from the excavations. The style of the architectural moldings, for example the concave leaves of the palmettes in the frieze, accords with this date.
History:
Unlike the other major temples in the sanctuary at Metapontum, the Ionic temple had only one building phase, with the foundations, peristyle and cella built in smooth succession. The building was constructed towards the end of the first quarter of the fifth century B.C. Fragments of terracotta acroteria appear later in date, and indicate that restorations were carried out. Ceramic evidence indicates that the temple was destroyed in the third century B.C.; shortly thereafter, most of the stones were removed for reuse elsewhere, and the foundations were filled in with debris, including some of the architectural elements of the superstructure.
Other Notes:
The temple presents a number of unusual features. The combination of an architrave, molded frieze, dentils, geison and sima does not conform to the canonical Ionic system of epistyle, dentils, geison and sima prevalent at this time in Asia Minor. The elongation of the plan, and the pseudodipteral effect created by the narrow cella, at first appear to presage developments in Ionic temple architecture of the Hellenistic period, for example at the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. Features such as wide ptera and unusual groundplans containing large numbers of columns, however, are already familiar in archaic Doric temple architecture in South Italy and Sicily, for example at the Basilica at Paestum. With respect to its groundplan, the Ionic temple at Metapontum can be viewed as standing at the end of archaic temple development in South Italy, especially through the inclusion of the long, narrow cella. The appearance of the Ionic order, however, is striking and attests to the native architect's desire for architectural experimentation, combined with the love of vivid ornament characteristic of South Italian temple architecture.
Other Bibliography:
Adamesteanu 1975, 26-39; Mertens 1977b, 152-162; Mertens 1979b, 103-137; Mertens 1985, 661-663 (Wikipedia).
Ruins of the Sanctuary of Athena in the ancient Hellenistic city of Priene, spectacularly located against a rocky outcrop.
Of the Temple the terrace with five (re-erected) Ionic columns remain, surrounded by a fascinating collection of related architectural debris. It was originally built in the 4th century BC by the architect Pythios, also responsible for the (lost) great Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Ancient Wonder of the World, situated some 100km south of here.
University of Glasgow Library
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Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola
Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura [Rome: 1562?]
Sp Coll S.M. 1911
A new ionic portico replaced a poorly detailed corinthian portico on this 1920s house in Fort Worth TX. Hull Hustorical, builder.
Fragment of an Ionic column capital decorated with a bull's head, located near the Odeon of the ancient, ruined city of Ephesus, Turkey.
Title: Architectural Orders: Ionic order
Other title: Capitals (Columns)
Description of work: The historic illustrations included in this project were originally published during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many originally appeared in publications that predated the widespread use of photography for art documentation. These engravings, line drawings, and plans reflect both the technological and aesthetic standards of their time. By their very nature, they often represent subjective interpretations of the monuments and works depicted, and as such they offer fascinating insights into the cultural values of art and architectural history during the formative years of these disciplines. In the context of these images the terms ""reconstruction"" and ""rendering"" have been used to distinguish between the artists' speculative reconstruction of a ruined work from the artists' perspective drawing or rendition of the design.
Description of view: Ionic capital and base
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Manuscripts and Books
Style of work: Ancient: Aegean: Greek: Classical
Culture: Ancient Greek
Measurements: 10.5H X 12.1W cm
Source: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879, Series I, plate 1, figure 1. Provided courtesy of Allan Kohl.
Resource type: Image
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Image size: 951H X 829W pixels
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Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0678.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0678
Sub collection: religious buildings: temples