18, showing the Tuscan order | Tuscan and Doric order | Doric orders ( top row ); two versions of the Ionic order | Ionic order ( center row ); Corinthian order | Corinthian and Composite order | Composite orders ( bottom row ).

The Tuscan order in Andrea Palladio, Quattro Libri di Architettura, 1570

The Tuscan order has a very plain design, with a plain shaft, and a simple capital, base, and frieze.

The Tuscan order is characterized by an unfluted shaft and a capital that only consist of an echinus and an abacus.

Compared to the other orders, the Tuscan order looks the most solid.

* Tuscan order

* Tuscan order

( There are two lesser orders, the stocky Tuscan order and the rich variant of Corinthian, the Composite order, added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.

* Tuscan order

The Tower is so named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with the columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.

To Burlington the primitive Tuscan order was associated with the use of trees as columns in ancient buildings.

Its rooms were for business, and Lord Burlington followed Palladio's recommendation to restrict the lowest order of Roman architecture, the Tuscan, to the ground floor.

The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

The largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, Elba is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park, and the third largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia.

The mountainous and most recent part of the island can be found to the west, the centre of which is dominated by Mount Capanne (), also called the " roof of the Tuscan Archipelago ".

In addition to Brunello di Montalcino, which must be aged five years prior to release, 6 years for the Riserva, Rosso di Montalcino ( DOC ), made from sangiovese grosso grapes and aged one year, and a variety of Super Tuscan wines are also produced within the comune, as well as the Moscadello sweet white wines for which it was most famous until the development of the Brunello series.

Shortly beforehand, he gave his Tuscan Matildine lands to his son-in-law, Henry the Proud of Bavaria, and his last acts were to give him also the Duchy of Saxony and the imperial regalia.

He also claimed that he had been given the book by a Tuscan woman named Maddalena, although historians such as Ronald Hutton have disputed the truth of these such claims.

1925 )-based in Union City, New Jersey, founded by friars from the Tuscan region of Italy to minister to Italian immigrants, with 12 communities on the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey, with parishes also in the Bronx, New York, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina, Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, Delaware.

She has credits ( sometimes under her full name, sometimes simply as kira ) on such films as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 2002 ), Under the Tuscan Sun ( 2003 ), and The Twilight Saga: New Moon ( 2009 ), and has also appeared onscreen in the documentaries We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen and American Hardcore.

As the Tour went on, Tuscan cities were also very important itinerary stops.

Florence was a major attraction, and other Tuscan towns, such as Siena, Pisa, Lucca and San Gimignano, were also considered important destinations.

They are also offering to overhaul all TVRs, Griffen to Sagaris, and will be taking offers to make Sagaris, Tuscan convertible, Tuscan MK II, Cerbera, Chimaera and Griffith to individual specifications.

Piero was born in the town of Borgo Santo Sepolcro, modern-day Tuscany ( where he also died ), to Benedetto de ' Franceschi, a tradesman, and Romana di Perino da Monterchi, part of the Florentine and Tuscan Franceschi noble family.

He is considered to be part of the Tuscan school, although he also worked extensively in Umbria and Rome.

Straw was also imported from Italy to produce the superior ' Tuscan plait ' traded at a Saturday market for the Luton and Dunstable hat trade and remained the major cottage industry until around 1860, providing employment for women and girls some of whom attended a ' plait-school ' in Waterside.

Montecristo, ( also Monte Cristo ), formerly Oglasa ( in ancient ), is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea and part of the Tuscan Archipelago.

Most Pecorino Romano is produced on the island of Sardinia, though its production is also allowed in Lazio and in the Tuscan Province of Grosseto.

Some electric locomotives and most passenger-hauling diesel locomotives were also painted in Tuscan Red.

She has also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli $$.

In this period, the Tuscan economist Sallustio Bandini, seemingly determined to " improve the intellectual stimulation of his native Siena " solicited scholarships from rich patrons for the university and also set up a large library, which he eventually bequeathed to the university.

* Cavolo nero ( also known as black cabbage, Tuscan Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Lacinato and dinosaur Kale )

He also wrote a Maritime Directory as a manual for the Tuscan Navy but it was never published.

Other well known Sangiovese-based Tuscan wines such as Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano could be bottled and labeled under the most basic designation of " Chianti " if their producers chose to do so.

Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the Commedia, to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina, were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the " canonical standard " that all educated Italians could understand.

Livorno inhabitants speak a variant of the Italian Tuscan dialect, known as a vernacolo.

It was built in the 1930s and its architecture is a combination of Castilian and Tuscan and has three storeys, including the tower room, known as the torre.

CU Boulder's distinctive architecture style, known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was designed by architect Charles Klauder.

This famous, Sicilian-born writer of realist fiction lived in Florence during the same period as them — 1865 – 1867 — and his best known book, Cavalleria rusticana, contains certain verbal parallels to the effects achieved on canvas by the Tuscan landscape school of this era.

John Veatch, a surgeon, surveyor, and scientist, was known for his discovery of large deposits of borax in mineral water at Tuscan Springs, California, on January 8, 1856.

The first known grammar of a Romance language was a book written in manuscript form by Leon Battista Alberti between 1437 and 1441 and entitled Grammatica della lingua toscana, " Grammar of the Tuscan Language " In it Alberti sought to demonstrate that the vernacular – here Tuscan, known today as modern Italian – was every bit as structured as Latin ; He did so by mapping vernacular structures onto Latin.

Like all of the brothers, he is named after a famous Renaissance artist ; in this case, he is semi-obviously named after Michelangelo, a 16th century influential Tuscan sculptor, painter and architect who is best known for sculpting David, several Pietàs and painting part of the Sistine Chapel.

Little is known of his life, but it is certain that he was in Italy before 1447, where he executed a portrait of Pope Eugene IV who died in that year ( now surviving only in much later copies ), and that upon his return to France, while retaining his purely French sentiment, he grafted the elements of the Tuscan style, which he had acquired during his period in Italy, upon the style of the Van Eycks, which was the basis of early 15th-century French art, and thus became the founder of an important new school.

Not much is known about his early life, but he was from a Tuscan aristocratic family, educated at Bologna, and was already making a name for himself as a composer at the age of 20.

In front of the Market House is a Market Cross, also known as The Pinnacle, with a column which dates from 1741 with a fluted Tuscan column, on a stepped plinth, which supports a ball finial crowned with a wrought-iron weathervane.

In 1905, Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild chose Cap Ferrat to build a Tuscan style palazzo, now known as Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild museum ; part of the history of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat.

Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress ( also known as Italian, Tuscan, or Graveyard Cypress, or Pencil Pine ) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southeast Greece ( Crete, Rhodes ), southern Turkey, Cyprus, Northern Egypt, western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Malta, Italy, western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in Iran.

In some areas, particularly the United States, it is known inaccurately as " Italian " or " Tuscan Cypress "; although the species is very commonly cultivated in Italy, it is not native there.

Cavalcanti was a part of the Tuscan poetic movement known as the Dolce stil novo ( Sweet New Style ), whose members are referred to by their Tuscan name, the stilnovisti.

He remains well known for his war poetry ( long poems from the post-war period such as " Tuscan Villa " and " Elegy for the Romagna ," as well as shorter, punchier 1980s poems such as " Below Monte Cassino " in which he recalled the events of a generation earlier ); for his poems relating to the landscape of Georgian Bay in Ontario ; for his love poems ; and for lyric poems in which the poet's passion for the natural world is infused with the suggestion of homoerotic passion (" Coureurs de Bois ," " A Country Without a Mythology ").

A Tuscan follower of William the Conqueror had a grandson named Maurice Fitzgerald, who moved to Ireland with the famous Earl of Surrey, known as " Strongbow.