The Etruscan column can be seen in this sixth-century-BC tomb at Cer-veteri with mock-timbered ceiling. The order was sketched (below) by Giorgio
Vasari in his plans for the colonnaded Uffizi—the grand duke’s Florentine offices that were constructed in 1560 and are today a museum.
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Although few of Etruria’s structures survive, aspects of its bold architecture do. With a smooth column and rounded capital (ri?jht), the Etruscan Doric column has become a builder’s staple, from illas in the Tuscan hills to late-20th-century homes in die United States. Distinct from its fluted, Greek Doric sister, the Tuscan order was originally described by the Roman architect Vitruvius. Of all the Renaissance architects who drew upon Vetru-vius’s treatise, Andrea Palladio, in a dtal reinterpretation of antiquity, had the most profound impact. Developing a graceful style of his own, he made use of this simple pillar in the elegantly distinctive houses that bear the name Palladian to this day.
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Tuscan columns grace the porch of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. An ardent reader of Palladio’s four-volume architectural treatise, Jefferson was the first to design and build a Palladiau villa in America.
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Acroteria—or statues borne by pedestals on the corners and peak of a pediment—constitute another quintessentially Etruscan temple feature used by Palladio and seen here in his 16th-century Church of San Giorgio Mag-giore in Venice.
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