Whether to place certain elements where wooden beams would have been placed or to rearrange them for greater symmetry forms a namesake corner problem for this order. Those elements, triglyphs, occur below the architrave and alternate with metopes, which in one famous example feature sculptures of the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Employed in the Lincoln memorial, its columns do not rest on a base. For 10 points, identify this simplest order of classical Greek architecture, most fa
Whether to place certain elements where wooden beams would have been placed or to rearrange them for greater symmetry forms a namesake corner problem for this order. Those elements, triglyphs, occur below the architrave and alternate with metopes, which in one famous example feature sculptures of the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Employed in the Lincoln memorial, its columns do not rest on a base. For 10 points, identify this simplest order of classical Greek architecture, most famously used in the Parthenon.
Whether to place certain elements where wooden beams would have been placed or to rearrange them for greater symmetry forms a namesake corner problem for this order.
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