#ionic order

[nike-apteros]

The Erectheion in Athens with the stunning Caryatid porch 🏛🏛

All pics taken by myself 📸📸

[d3utschem4rk]

A palace in Hyderabad

unknown photographer c. 1870

Columbia University

[michael-svetbird]

GARNI Archaeological Site and Temple, Kotayk Province, Armenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garni_Temple 1 AD. Just a little teaser preceding my forthcoming article about Garni which most likely, I hope, will be published in late spring - the photographs presented [architectural details] are part of a larger set:

Garni Temple portico | pronaos,

Temple side colonnades,

Roman baths floor mosaic | detail.

Գառնի | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 12|23-01|24 6300X4200 600 [I.-III.] [photos are subject to copyright, sorry for the watermarks]

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[conformi]

Ionic capital, Erechtheion | Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Greece, 421-406 BC VS Carrie FIsher as Princess Leia Organa

[thecrankyprofessor]

Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza. Palladio's solution to the corner problems of Doric and Ionic - he used it at least here and at the Palazzo Chiericati.

[awidevastdominion]

[2seeitall]

The Sphinx of Naxos The Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Greece   

This colossal statue of the mythical Sphinx came as an offering to Apollo of Delphi from the island of Naxos. The daemonic creature with the female face, the body of a lioness and the wings of an eagle, was supposed to be warding off the evil. The enormous (2 m) figure was seated on the top of a tall (10 m) marble ionic column.

According to the myth, the Sphinx guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, asking the same riddle to travellers to allow them passage. Those who couldn’t solve the riddle were thrown down from the cliff or devoured. The riddle of the Sphinx was the following: "Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" The answer is: Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age. Oedipus was the only one who solved the riddle, entered the city and became its ruler. 

[momamama]