Editing Ionic order (section)

===Columns and entablature===
The Ionic [[column]] is always more slender than the Doric; therefore, it always has a base:<ref name="Heck1856">{{cite book|author=Johann Georg Heck|title=The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times, Or, Architecture Illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHhJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25|year=1856|publisher=D. Appleton|page=25}}</ref> Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the [[Antebellum architecture|Antebellum]] colonnades of late American Greek Revival plantation houses.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

Ionic columns are most often [[Fluting (architecture)|fluted]]. After a little early experimentation, the number of hollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportion to the diameter of the column at any scale, even when the height of the column was exaggerated. Unlike Greek Doric fluting, which runs out to an [[arris]] or sharp edge, that was easily damaged by people brushing it as they passed by, Ionic fluting leaves a little flat-seeming surface of the column surface between each hollow (in fact it is a small segment of a circle around the column).<ref>[[A. W. Lawrence|Lawrence, A. W.]], ''Greek Architecture'', p. 130, 1957, Penguin, Pelican history of art. Lawrence dates this innovation to c. 500 BC</ref>

In some instances, the fluting has been omitted. English architect [[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House, Whitehall]], London, and when Beaux-Arts architect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the [[American Museum of Natural History]], New York City, for an unusual impression of strength and stature. Wabash Railroad architect R.E. Mohr included eight unfluted Ionic frontal columns on his 1928 design for the railroad's [[Delmar Boulevard station]] in St. Louis.

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The [[entablature]] resting on the columns has three parts: a plain [[architrave]] divided into two, or more generally three, bands, with a [[frieze]] resting on it that may be richly sculptural, and a [[cornice]] built up with [[dentil]]s (like the closely spaced ends of joists), with a corona ("crown") and cyma ("ogee") [[Molding (decorative)|molding]] to support the projecting roof. Pictorial, often narrative, [[bas-relief]] frieze carving provides a characteristic feature of the Ionic order, in the area where the Doric order is articulated with [[triglyph]]s. Roman and Renaissance practice condensed the height of the entablature by reducing the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.