Jefferson’s Classical Orders at the University of Virginia, with Calder Loth

[@Davidbirdman101]

I was a carpenter for about 45 years and I worked with a lot of these columns and capitols, various details we installed on houses, but I never really knew where the idea of them came from. It's very interesting to see how all these things evolved over time. Great videos. Thanks for uploading.

[@ClassicalPower]

We want more from Calder Loth.

[@StrangerHappened]

The guy is already 79, what a treasure!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Calder Loth is amazing, more lectures, please Dr. Loth!

[@Clemeaux_]

Thanks for these videos. I appreciate this so much. No wheres else can I get this information, the exposure to such topics has invigorated a passion in me for classical architecture. Thank you, thank you, and thank you!

[@GentlemanLife-Beyotch]

As a Virginian, THIS is the Virginia I love 🎩

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Here in Marin County, California we used to have the “Marin Art and Garden Center”, which featured, among other things, Jeffersonian serpentine brick walks around it. They are much more stable than conventional brick walks and beautifully frame plantings inside and outside of the walks. It was a lovely facility for garden shows and other public activities, but they eventually closed it and redeveloped it, the brick walls are gone, too. Probably the owners didn’t feel they were getting enough money for the very pricey location where it was built, on some of the highest-priced land in a very expensive county. What a shame!

[@KenDanieli]

26:30 Pavilion V. I'd expect him to explain why it's a colonnade vs a portico.

[@thecolumnguy5958]

A portico is a porch or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building. When in front of a building, screening the door, it is called a portico. A colonnade is a series of columns at regular intervals. When the colonnade extends across, or nearly across, one side of a building and serves as an entrance, it is called a portico; when it is continued so as to extend along three or, usually, all four sides of a building, it is called a peristyle.

[@danelebro7722]

Been trying to model an accurate Corinthian leaf in SketchUp for the past month...@)

[@kylejmarsh3988]

Might have better luck in Blender - been a long time SU user among other programs and I just started looking into Blender and it's impressive, especially if you're modeling objects like a column, etc. with organic shapes. Really fun to use too reminds me of SU

[@danelebro7722]

@@kylejmarsh3988 I agree with you, blender has a steep learning curve though, it's an entirely new interface for me. When I finish uni this June I will have a look into it!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

The Pavilion II frieze swag has New World flora, too, not Old World, incorporating pumpkins, other squashes and possibly maize (it’s difficult to be sure viewing it on KZbin).

[@ACKR0NYM]

@ClassicistORG I have loved these videos on architectural history. Would you be willing and/or able to do one covering byzantine architecture, or at the very least a in-depth coverage of the Hagia Sophia? Thanks!

[@calderloth6058]

As much as I admire Byzantine architecture, it is not my area of expertise and would be most hesitant to attempt an informed video lecture on the subject. However, one tidbit regarding Hagia Sophia is that Justinian nipped eight of the giant columns from the temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon for use in Hagia Sophia. Only six remain in Baalbek; I'm not sure where they were used on Hagia Sophia.

[@KenDanieli]

30:00 I know nothing but all of these photos of the elevations of the pavilions look to me like they would be wood columns, probably cued by the brick buildings which they're in front of. I would think that homes, which these resemble, usually have wood columns. But we see that the capitals are carved from stone in Italy in many cases. On the larger scale, I'd expect stone columns, but in isolation they feel like they'd be wood, to me.

[@billrugg-easey4764]

Jefferson wasn’t much of an architect was he? Commodity maybe, but lacking firmness or delight!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I think he was terrific, he was an amateur, a dilettanto, after all. This amateur couldn’t come up with anything one-tenth as good.

[@milesbloomfield9832]

This is a great video, thanks!