| 单词 | a tuscan pillar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa Tuscan pillar c. Architecture. Name of the simplest and rudest of the five classical orders of architecture; allied to the Doric (of which it is by many considered a simpler form), but devoid of all ornament; belonging to this order, as a Tuscan pillar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders composite1563 Italic1563 Tuscan1563 Ionic?1566 compositive1601 Tuscanic1601 Doric1614 Ionical1624 Italian1624 Roman1624 compoundeda1639 compound ordera1639 Corinthiac1638 Corinthian1656 rustic1663 composed1728 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ I haue more at large spoken of this matter in the ending of the Tuscan piller. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 228 The Tuscan is a plain, massie, rurall Pillar, resembling some sturdy well-limb'd Labourer, homely clad. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 230 The Tuscan is of all the rudest Pillar, and his Principall Character Simplicity. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Of all the Orders, the Tuscan is the most easily executed; as having neither Triglyphs nor Dentils, nor Modillions to confine its Intercolumns. 1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 446 The Tuscan was more robust and unadorned than any of these orders [Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian]. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. vii. 359 Another order, called Tuscan (which is no order at all, but a spoiled Doric). < as lemmas |
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