Corinthian order perhaps reduced in size and importance, scrolling out above the two ranks of stylized acanthus leaves and stalks ("cauliculi" or "caulicoles"), eight in all, and to notice that smaller volutes scroll inwards to meet each other on each side. The leaves may be quite stiff, schematic and dry, or they may be extravagantly drilled and undercut, naturalistic and spiky. In Late Antique and Byzantine practice, the leaves may be blown sideways, as if by the wind of Faith. Unlike the Doric and Ionic column capitals, a Corinthian capital has no neck beneath it, just a ring-like astragal molding or a
Hôtel de Brucelles is a figure half-body - alternately a man and a woman - dressed in the antique and fashion of the sixteenth century. The capitals of the columns surrounding each window take up the superposition of classical architectural orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian. To the left of the tower, the balusters adorning the superimposed galleries (not originally walled) are also Corinthian, Ionic and Doric. Hôtel de Brucelles The Hôtel de Brucelles in Toulouse, France, is a gothic and Renaissance "hôtel particulier" ("palace") of the 16th century. It is a listed historical monument since 1925. The Hotel de Brucelles is located at 19