However, in fact, the very concept of order and an overall relationship is really the most important thing here. ANDREA PALLADIO (1508‑80), usually considered the greatest architect of the whole Renaissance, first trained as a mason, and did not appear as an architect until he was thirty‑two years of age. If it is not, it is often worth pausing to unravel the reason why (sometimes simply a tight budget). The entablature resembles the Corinthian. Historic tradition has it that, in about 1000 BC, the Dorians, a tribe from the region to the north of the Gulf of Corinth, invaded and conquered southern Greece; and made important settlements also in Sicily and in south‑west Italy. In 1418 he started his career as an architect, and one of his first works was the Foundling Hospital in Florence (1421‑34), one of the first Foundling homes in the world. PHILLIPO BRUNELLESCHI (1377‑1446) may be considered as the first of the Renaissance architects. Corinthian Order. The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, ... a Corinthian capital has no neck beneath it, just a ring-like astragal molding or a banding that forms the base of the capital, recalling the base of the legendary basket. the first Grand Master of the 1717 Grand Lodge, is buried in the vaults of the church. This design uses Acanthus leaves in its Capital part. On the first floor of the Capitol’s House wing is the dramatic, high ceilinged Hall of Columns, which takes its name from the 28 fluted, white marble columns that line the corridor. Professor of Astronomy at the age of twenty‑five; Surveyor‑ General and principal Architect for rebuilding London after the Great Fire at thirty‑four; Surveyor‑General of the Royal Works at thirty‑seven; President of the Royal Society at forty‑eight. It was designed and built by Callicrates from about 448-421 B.C. in 1771. The height of the column, including base and capital, is usually ten diameters. and its true home was Asia Minor; probably the most important example, however, is the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens. It was not until the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, early in the fifteenth century, that the Classic Roman Orders were reintroduced, after having been in abeyance for nearly one thousand years. the Corinthian, representing beauty. But after a few hundred years, they got more creative and sometimes used one order for the exterior and another for the interior. Circular pillar supporting the entablature; it is composed of three parts: the base, the shaft and the capital. Another version is that it was found in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, near Naples. It is known, however, that he paid several visits to Italy. The column is commonly ten diameters high. It seems highly probable that it was used by the Etruscans, and that it was adopted by the Romans at the same time as the arch, vault, and dome. The entablature resembles the Corinthian. It should be remembered that the Orders associated with freemasonry are those employed by the Renaissance architects. In Greece, the Doric column was placed directly on the pavement or floor without benefit of a base. The Romans adopted these three and added the Tuscan and the Composite, so making the Five Orders of Architecture. Bro Bernard E. Jones considers that the idea of the Doric came from Egypt, but that the Greeks so largely redesigned the Order as to be regarded as its originators. The great Italian architects were the founders of the Renaissance, and it was from the remains of Roman architecture alone that the inspiration came; there is no evidence that they had any knowledge of the more refined architecture of the Greeks. Bro Bernard E. Jones, in his authoritative book Freemasons' Guide and Compendium (1956), does not mention Inigo Jones in this connection, but he considers that Sir Christopher Wren was almost certainly a speculative mason, but not a Grand Master of the Order nor an important figure in the emergence of speculative masonry.