[Redbook9:220][19910501:0800b]{Renaissance Architecture [continued]}[1st May 1991]
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‘… The ornate, decorative quality of the Corinthian order was embraced during the early Renaissance, while the masculine simplicity and strength of the Doric was preferred during the Italian High Renaissance.’
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One might feel that naturalism had little or nothing to do with a revival of classical forms and ornaments, and that the order of the [Classical] Orders suggests a predominantly i[nner] c[ircle] rotation. But we shall see.
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*{(Read here last extract on [[Redbook9:222][19910430:1230g]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (7)]}[1st May 1991],] p222↓)}
** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:996]
{(immediately followed by first para[graph] on [[Redbook9:225][19910430:1230l]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (12)]}[1st May 1991],] p225↓)}
***{The Corinthian came after the Doric (& Ionic) in Classical Greece, after all.
(See [[Redbook9:225][19910430:1230m]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (13)]}[1st May 1991],] 225)}
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