Ionic• Most Romantemples are in the Corinthian order, a few Ionic but rarely Doric.• From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ioniccolonnade and a centralfountain.• This one has Ioniccolumns and a balustrade, and the speaker's gallery seems to have been right.• Ahead, a handful of broken Ionic columns rose against the palebluesky.• The porch is a semicircle of giantIonic columns running the full height of the house.• The Doric capitals were large and simple, the Ionic ones of the Aeolic type.• The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases.
OriginIonic
(1600-1700)FrenchIonique, from Latin, from GreekIonikos