Here's a little quiz to while away your afternoon at work: which of these pillar tops (referred to as capitals) is Ionic, which is Corinthian and which is Doric? For extra credit, explain your answer.[That is a magnificent answer, mum. I'm absolutely blown away. I'm going to award you 8 out of 10. You lose two marks because you didn't mention (perhaps because you are too polite to do so) that the Doric is identifiable because of the egg shape in the cetre of it's capital. It's not actually representative of an egg, but is instead a bull's testicle and is a symbol of fertility.
The first is Doric, the second Corinthian (slender fluted column having an ornate capital decorated with two rows of acanthus leaves and 4 scrolls and the last Ionic (this is distinguished by 2 opposed scrolls. Marks out of 10
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