The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform while the cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.

Classical Roman art differed from classical Greek art because Roman art focused on realism, while Greek art focused on idealism. Roman artists typically made realistic portraits and sculptures. The Greeks idealized the human form because much of their art was a portrayal of their gods

Roman architect Vitruvius observed that the delicate Corinthian design “was produced out of the two other orders.” He described the Corinthian column as “an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in ..

On top of the base is the shaft, the long part of the column with groves running down the sides. At the very top is the capital, the decorative stone that bears the weight of the roof. Ionic columns tend to be more slender, but the defining feature of the Ionic order is the volute.

Frank Lloyd Wright

7 of the Largest Constructed Monuments in the United States

• Gateway Arch, St. Louis.
• The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. The Washington Post Getty Images.
• The Statue of Liberty, New York City. Gary Hershorn Getty Images.
• Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
• Space Needle, Seattle.
• USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu.
• Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.

TEN MOST VISITED MONUMENTS

• 10) Taj Mahal, Agra, India. (2.5 million visitors a year)
• 9) Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt. (3 million visitors a year)
• 8) Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
• 7) Statue of Liberty, NYC, USA.
• 6) Colosseum, Rome, Italy.
• 5) Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., USA.
• 4) Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
• 3) Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.

Philadelphia City Hall

Officials of the city’s Art Commission chose the light-gray hue and thought about “warming up the color” to match the stone of the main building, Hine wrote. But they could not find a way to do it. So the light-gray paint went on the copper plates before being topped on the refurbished tower

William Penn

The building was designed by Scottish-born architect John McArthur Jr. and Thomas Ustick Walter in the Second Empire style, and was constructed from 1871 to 1901 at a cost of $24 million.

The City Plan of Philadelphia is a seminal creation in American city planning in that it was the first American City Plan to provide open public squares for the free enjoyment of the community and a gridiron street pattern featuring streets of varying widths: wide main streets and narrower side streets.

The population grew dramatically at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, through immigration from Ireland, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, as well as the Great Migration of blacks from the rural South and Puerto Ricans from the Caribbean, all attracted to the city’s expanding industrial …

Situated between the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn as the seat of a Quaker colony. Later, its location just upstream of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean made it an industrial, commercial, and cultural hub of the American colonies