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Jasonik, thanks for starting this thread.

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A piquant (and classic) irony ...


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... because you could say Doric is the most classic of the classic.

clas•sic (klas’ik)adj.

[Fr. classique, from L. classicus of the highest class of Roman citizens, of the first rank, hence superior, from classis, a class.]

1:of the highest class or rank.

2: of recognized value; serving as a standard or model of excellence.

3: in fashion year after year; of enduring interest, quality or style.

4: characterized by simple lines.

5: balanced, formal, objective, austere, regular.

6: traditional, historically memorable; noted because of special associations.

7: characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans or their culture.

8: authentic, authoritative, typical.

9: in accordance with established principles of excellence in the arts and sciences.


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Sometimes Ionic can come across as Doric, but it's all classic:


Painting by Carl Laubin. Architecture by Andrea P.

”Use bullets and spare the verbiage.”


Sculpture byAntonio Canova.

Of recognized value; serving as a standard or model of excellence...


Painting by Laubin. Architecture by Hawksmoor.


Painting by Antonio Canale (Canaletto).


Photo by MidtownGuy.

Classic pastimes...


Painting by Jean-Leon Gerome.


Painting by Frank Frazetta.


Painting by Carl Laubin.


Painting by Laubin.

Classic seen through a modern eye...


Laubin.


Laubin (by way of Gris?).

characterized by simplicity or purity of line...


Architecture by Hawksmoor.

Doric:


Photo by Walker Evans.

Classic enthusiasms...


Sculpture by Hiram Powers.


Drawing by Picasso.


Painting by Laubin, Architecture by LeCorbusier.


Painting by Laubin, Architecture by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.


Painting by Carl Laubin.


Painting by Canaletto.


Photo by Claudio Pollard.


Photo by MidtownGuy.

characteristic of the ancients and their culture ...


Painting by Laubin.


Laubin.


Sculpture by Myron.


Painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.


Sculpture by Hiram Powers.


Painting by Alma-Tadema.


Alma-Tadema.


Photo by MidtownGuy.

austere; characteristic of the ancients and their culture... classic poses...


Painting by David.


Painting by Frazetta.

The imminence of tragedy...


The Lictors bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons. Painting by Jacques-Louis David.


Death of Socrates by David.


Painting by Giorgio de Chirico.

Classic wardrobes...


Muses by Chirico.


Madame Recamier by David.


In the Tepidarium by Alma-Tadema.


Painting by Carl Laubin.

Classic Profiles...


Chirico.


Hermes by Praxiteles.


Leon Krier and brother Rob.

Of the highest class or rank. Of recognized value...


Canova.


David.


Alexander.

in fashion year after year ... of enduring interest, quality or style ... of the highest class or rank ... of recognized value... serving as a standard or model of excellence...


Victory.


Mascot.


Architecture by John Nash.


Painting by Laubin.


Painting by Laubin.

of the highest class or rank ... of recognized value ... referring to the ancients and their culture ...


Painting by R. Sanzio.


Paintin by Laubin, Architecture by Krier.


Painting and architecture by Giorgio de Chirico.


Leonardo da Vinci and (perhaps) Michelangelo Buonarotti as Plato and Aristotle, by Raffaello Sanzio.

Classic motifs ...


Painting by Amedeo Modigliani.

in fashion year after year...


Painting by Velazquez.


Painting by Laubin.


Sculpture by M. Buonarotti.


Sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini.

Classic transport ...


Painting by Sandro Botticelli.


Painting by R. Sanzio.


Painting by C. Laubin.


Sculpture by Giambolgna.


Laocoon.

Classic dreams ... characterized by simplicity in accordance with established principles of excellence in the arts and sciences ...


Painting by Chirico.


Architecture by Krier.


Architecture by Ledoux.


Folly.


Painting by Canaletto.


Photo by MidtownGuy.


Ledoux.

Acquired tastes of a classic mind:


Chirico.


Laubin.


Pollard.


MidtownGuy.


Alma-Tadema.


Canaletto.


Paintings by Veronese, architecture by Palladio.

in fashion year after year; of enduring interest, quality or style, authentic, authoritative, typical...


Canaletto.


Monteriggioni.


Monteriggioni.


Monteriggioni.

balanced, formal, objective, austere, regular...


Ledoux.


Palladio.


Palladio.

Structural integrity (or its illusion):


Ledoux.


Palladio


Mies.


Mies.


Mies.


Architecture by Thomas Jefferson.


Carlo Fontana.


Hawksmoor.


Robert Smythson.

Classic faces (don't bother to smile):


Painting by Agnolo Bronzino.


Painting by Leonardo da Vinci.


Pierino da Vinci, nephew of Leonardo, by Bronzino.

A classic lady (a classy dame):


Bronzino.


Titian.


Bronzino.


Admiral Andrea Doria by Bronzino. Note classic attire.

If you build for eternity, you have to forget about the present.


Painting by Carl Laubin, architecture by Nicholas Ledoux.


Painting by Carl Laubin, architecture by Leon Krier.

Architecture in a classic city:


Paternoster Square, London.


Nicholas Hawksmoor.


Paternoster Square.


Paternoster Square.


Paternoster Square proposal. Painting by Carl Laubin, architecture by John Simpson.


Paternoster Square.


Painting by Laubin.

Classic landscape:


Stourhead, landscape by Hoare and Flitcroft.


Stowe, landscape by Capability Brown, architecture by William Kent.

Closet classicist:


Drawing by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, aka LeCorbusier.


Stourhead, landscape by Hoare and Flitcroft.


Stourhead.


Stourhead.


Palladian Bridge, Stowe, by William Kent.


Stourhead.


Architecture by John Russell Pope.


Canaletto.


Canaletto.


Canaletto.

Useful classics:


Fountain by Nicola Salvi.


Utensil by B. Cellini.


Pont Alexandre III, Paris.


Pont Alexandre III and Grand Palais, Paris.

Classic characters:


Halbedier by Pontormo ("You talkin' to me?").


The Art Boys: Bellini and Mantegna, by Mantegna.


Painting by Picasso.

Ecstasy...


Picasso.


Bernini.

Agony...


Hector and Andromache by De Chirico.


The Prophet by De Chirico.

historically memorable, noted because of special associations...


Magnificent Lorenzo by Verocchio.


Lorenzo de Medici.


Medici bust, Palazzo Vecchio.


Architecture by Palladio, painting by Laubin.



Architecture by Bramante.


Architecture by Charles E. Brigham and I.M. Pei.


Drawing by Canaletto, architecture by Wren.


Painting by Canaletto, architecture by Longhena.


Architecture by Wren.


Painting by Laubin.


Architecture by Lord Burlington.


Painting by Goya.


Painting by Picasso.


Painting by Laubin.

of or relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans or their culture...


Painting by Laubin.


Architecture by Hawksmoor.


Self-portrait of Carl Laubin in his studio.

serving as a standard of excellence...


Leon in his lair. (Krier) Painting by Laubin.


Atlantis, Canary Islands. City by Leon Krier, painting by Laubin.


Hawksmoor's works. Painting by Carl Laubin.


The Archaeologists. Painting by Chirico.

Another self-portrait of civilized Carl (that old shoe). He's here to hold the line for us against...


Painting by Laubin.

... these guys:


Painting by Frank Frazetta.

Göring might have tried, but he couldn't talk his pilots into staying in their planes ...



Later efforts were more successful:


Painting by Carl Laubin.

But no defense is ever complete:


Architecture by Hawksmoor.

So ...


Cain and his Descendants. Painting by Fernand Cormon.


The classic: an ongoing, though doomed, conspiracy to lift mankind by improving its products.


Painting by Laubin.


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