The order Tuscan is only one debased imitation of the doric Greek. One looks it like originating in old the Étrurie and the Romains employed it before making the conquest of the Greece. The Tuscan monuments of order, with Rome, were thus old; they, were since ruined by time or were rebuilt according to the various systems that Greece made known with the Architecte S; also he survived until our days no whole building built according to the rules of this kind.

Vignole assigns with the order Tuscan the following proportions: entablature, 3 modules and 6 minutes or 3 Module S ½, including 1 module 4 minutes for the Cornice, 1 module 2 minutes for the plank and 1 module for the Architrave; column S, 14 modules, including 12 for the barrel, 1 for the base and 1 for the capital; Pedestal, 4 modules 8 minutes, including 3 modules 8 minutes for the die, 6 minutes for the base and 6 for the cornice; reduction in the base at the top, 6 minutes; entrecolonnement, 4 modules 8 minutes. What characterizes especially the order Tuscan, it is the absence of any ornament.

The architects of the Renaissance sometimes made use of the order Tuscan, but with modifications: they added there various kinds of Bossage S, vermiculations, congelations, etc It is the rustic Tuscan Palais Pitti with Florence, whose Palais of Luxembourg, with Paris is an almost exact copy.

Some Tuscan examples of the order

Modern Tuscan

• the Église of Martigny in Suisse is a building of the 17th century, superbly restored. The nave is austere, but the recent restoration, thanks to attentive studies of the various coats of plaster, made it possible to give again with this nave its colors of origin, luminous and clear. The Order Tuscan reigns in this place (pillars of the nave, doors and door frames).

• the Muséum of natural history of Grenoble conceived by architect-see, Paul Benoit Barillon, was built within the Botanical garden, in periphery of the town of Grenoble in France, during the time 1848-1851. Columns of the Toscan order which did not achieve the unanimity at the time of the proposal of the plans by architect-see P.B. Barillon: