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Tuscan order

Invented in the Italian Renaissance, the Tuscan order is a simplified version of the Greek Doric order,  featuring unfluted columns and a simpler entablature.

PalladioTuscan

The Tuscan order, as illustrated in Andrea Palladio‘s Four Books of Architecture (1570).

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