Week 2 Responses

Week 2 Response

During the changing times of Ancient Greece to the Romanesque period, the designs of capitals were put together in disregard of following the entirety of the standards set by Greece before. The Tuscan and Composite styles utilized during the Byzantine period portrayed more of a hybrid between the Ionic and Corinthian orders which could be the result of less-skilled laborers needing to work to meet the demand for more structures being built. The Romanesque period featured a shift in a desire for a more decorated capital to the general size of the capitals, columns, and structures as a whole.

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