Broken pediment
Architecture
A pediment open or broken at the apex, base or both, and the gap often filled with an urn, cartouche, or other ornament ...
Broken pediment - a pediment over a door, window or on a gable with cornices ending before they meet at the top; a finial is often placed in the center.
Bullseye window - small oval window, set horizontally.
Broken Pediment - a Baroque and Rococco style of pediment that is purposely broken either at the bottom or at the top for decorative effect.
Broken pediment
a pediment in which the cornice is discontinuous or interrupted by another element.
Bronze ...
Broken Pediment
A pediment in which a part of the cornice is discontinuous (deliberately missing). If the cornice is discontinuous at its apex then it is called an open topped or broken-apex pediment.
broken pediment
a pediment over a a door, window or on a gable that is incomplete in the center of the bottom part of the triangle.
Brutalism ...
Broken pediment with each half shaped in the form of a reverse curve, and ending in an ornamental scroll. Usually a finial is placed in the center between the two halves.
Secretary desk ...
broken pediment on windows
window: large pane surrounded by smaller panes or blank lower pane with patterned pane above
dominant decorative chimney
classical one story columns or turned spindles porch supports ...
A broken pediment has its apex omitted. An open pediment has the centre of the base omitted. A broken pediment with double-curved sides is called a swan-neck pediment.
particularly above certain church doors and on large standing wall monuments, a wide but low triangular structure to decorate the top ‘Gable' Where the top section of the triangular gable is missing this is called a broken Pediment.
1712, good example of broken pediment above doorway.
17. Savannah, GA. c.1789. The Pink House, known as such for the light pink shade of stucco used on its exterior. Also a HABS building (documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey).
Low-pitched gable used in classical, Renaissance, and neo-classical architecture above a portico and above doors, windows, etc. It may be straight-sided or curved segmentally. Broken Pediment: one where the centre portion of the sloping sides is left ...
PEDIMENT A gable finished with a horizontal moulding between the two lower corners, ultimately derived from Greek temples. A broken pediment has this horizontal moulding partially left open.
a low-pitched gable used in Classical and Renaissance architecture above a portico, at the end of a building, or above doorways, windows, niches, etc.; sometimes the gable angle is omitted, forming a broken pediment, ...
The AT&T Headquarters (now the SONY building) appears to be a sleek skyscraper in the Interntional Style. However, the peak of the skyscraper is adorned with a broken pediment that was scornfully compared to the ornamental top of a Chippendale desk.
A low-pitched gable across a portico, door or window; any similar triangular decorative piece over a doorway, fireplace or other feature. A pediment that is open on top is called a broken pediment.
Pier ...
Symmetrically placed windows, often in adjacent pairs or triple windows treated as a single unit
Entries with sidelights and crowned by rectangular transoms or fanlight and broken pediments
Sunrooms or porches with columns ...
If we remove the intricate maze of broken pediments, undulating cornices, stucco shells, inverted tapers and garlands from the rather plain wall it is set against, the building's form would not be affected in the slightest.
pediment the architectural structure above a window, door, or porch -- either triangular or segmental (an arc, or segment of a circle); an open pediment has the center of its top missing, and a broken pediment has the center of its base missing.
 See also: Broken, Pediment, Architecture, House, Classical
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