Tuscan order

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The Tuscan order is a simplified classical architectural order characterized by unfluted columns, a plain frieze, and minimal ornamentation, often used in Renaissance and later architecture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural order
classical order
column order
associatedWithCulture Etruscan architecture
comparedTo Doric order
describedIn I quattro libri dell’architettura
surface form: Palladio’s I quattro libri dell’architettura

Sebastiano Serlio
surface form: Serlio’s architectural treatises

Vignola
surface form: Vignola’s Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura
hasAlternativeName Ordine Toscano
Tuscan column
hasBaseType molded base
hasCapitalType simple echinus and abacus
hasCharacteristic minimal ornamentation
no metopes
no triglyphs
plain frieze
simple base and capital
smooth shaft
unfluted columns
hasColumnType unfluted shaft
hasEntablatureType plain architrave
plain frieze
simple cornice
hasOrigin ancient Italy
hasProportion relatively short column height to diameter ratio
sturdy proportions
hasTypicalUse fortified structures
lower stories of buildings
service or utilitarian spaces
influencedBy Etruscan column forms
isA simplified Doric order
partOf classical architecture
the five classical orders
rankWithinOrders most plain of the classical orders
systematizedBy Andrea Palladio
Vignola
surface form: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Sebastiano Serlio
usedIn Baroque
surface form: Baroque architecture

Neoclassical architecture
Renaissance architecture
church architecture
farmhouses
military architecture
palaces
porches and porticoes
public buildings
rustic buildings
vernacular architecture
valuedFor economy of ornament
simplicity
solidity

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