Ionic Pilasters: what?!
In the Masque of Beauty Jonson describes the ‘the Throne of Beauty, erected, divided into eight squares, and distinguished by so many Ionic pilasters’.
So what are they? Extensive research on Google Images reveals that they look something like this:
It’s apparently the scroll at the top of the pillar that makes them ionic.



Alice Eardley

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