volute

(noun)

The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.

Related Terms

  • colonnade
  • abacus
  • dipteral
  • stoa
  • acanthus
  • orthogonal

Examples of volute in the following topics:

  • Classical Greek Architecture

    • The Ionic Order is most easily identified by its voluted capital.
    • They were shaped like a bell-shaped mixing bowl and ornamented with a double row of acanthus leaves above which rose voluted tendrils splayed.
    • Corner capital in the Ionic style with a diagonal volute, showing also details of the fluting separated by fillets.
  • Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

    • One of the most famous early Athenian black-figure pots is a large volute krater by the potter Ergotimos and the painter Kleitias, known as the François Vase.
    • Athenian black-figure volute krater.
  • Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

    • The capital consists of a double layer of acanthus leaves and stylized plant tendrils that curl up towards the abacus in the shape of a scroll or volute.
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