The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is recognizeably Roman Ionic when viewed from outside. The scroll designs on the column capitals are an Ionic design. The columns of the main facade, however, are fluted, while the balcony doorway columns are not fluted. Roman Ionic columns consist both of fluted and unfluted columns, wheras Greek Ionic columns are always fluted.
    The Pantheon, Rome, is a Roman Corinthian building, with its acanthus-leaf capitals and simple entablature. Also, the egg-and-dart pattern found along the entire edge of the triangular cornice, is very commonly used in the Roman Corinthian order.
    The MFA follows the Roman Ionic order strictly, but both 0f these facades use leaf designs as their primary pattern and ornament.

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