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Ionic columns1/11/2024 It was optional for the Ionic and Corinthian orders. įluting was very common in formal ancient Greek architecture, and compulsory in the Greek Doric order. Minoan and Mycenaean architecture used both, but Greek and Roman architecture used the concave style almost exclusively. Convex fluting was probably intended to imitate plant forms. It is generally agreed that fluting was used on wooden columns (none of which have survived) before it was used on stone with a curved adze applying concave fluting to wooden columns made from tree trunks, would have been relatively easy. St Peter's Basilica, Rome, with cable-fluted pilasters and fluted columns It may also be incorporated in columns to make them look thinner, lighter, and more elegant. ![]() As such, fluting was often used on buildings and temples to increase the sense of rhythm. Greek architects viewed rhythm as an important design element. As a strong vertical element it also has the visual effect of minimizing any horizontal joints. Fluting promotes a play of light on a column which helps the column appear more perfectly round than a smooth column. Įspecially in stone architecture, fluting distinguishes the column shafts and pilasters visually from plain masonry walls behind. If the raised ridge between two flutes appears flat, the ridge is a fillet. ![]() If the hollowing out of material meets in a point, the point (sharp ridge) is called an arris. The term typically refers to the curved grooves (flutes) running vertically on a column shaft or a pilaster, but is not restricted to those two applications. Architectural practice of cutting grooves through an otherwise plain surface Concave fluting on Doric order columns Northington Grange, a Greek Revival building of 1804-1817įluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface.
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