Capitals

Ionic capital: A capital used originally by the Greeks in a system of supports called the Ionic order. An Ionic capital has a volute, or a spiral scroll-like carving, on each side as its major decoration. Ionic capitals are relatively rare in ...

Capitals - The carved stone which caps a column or pier and which forms the transition between the shape of the column and the arches over it. Censers - A vessel in which incense is burned. Chapel - A small room opening off the choir or the aisles.

The capitals, while retaining the form of a square top and a round bottom, were often compressed into little more than a bulging cushion-shape.

Cushion capitals can also be found in Richardsonian Romanesque style Examples from Buffalo architecture Illustration above: St. Francis RC Church ...

Byzantine capitals are of endless variety; the Roman composite capital would seem to have been the favourite type they followed at first: subsequently, the block of stone was left rough as it came from the quarry, and the sculptor, set to carve it, ...

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, ...

Historiated capitals were most commonly used in the Romanesque from the late eleventh to mid-twelfth centuries.

entablature the uppermost part of a classical architectural order, a level of decoration situated above the capitals of a colonnade and consisting of the architrave, frieze, and cornice.

Corinthian: The slenderest and most ornate of the three Greek orders of architecture, having elaborate capitals with volutes and acanthus leaf decoration. Corner Board: A board which is used as trim on the external corner of a wood framed structure.

The Ionic order originated in the cities on the islands and coasts of Asia Minor, which were more exposed to Asian and Egyptian influences; it featured capitals with spiral volutes, a more slender shaft with quite different fluting, ...

Muslim rule in the Deccan was complex and fragmentary, with dynasties established at various capitals gaining the upper hand at different times, until the late seventeenth century when the area was brought into the Mughal Empire.

The recycled use of structural or sculptural elements, such as columns, capitals, relief carvings, etc.

The Rectangular Temple on the right is Ionic in style (capitals with characteristic volutes) and is built of tufa and travertine with a superficial coating of stucco( bonding material). It stands on a lofty podium in the Republican manner.

Byzantine A style dating from the fifth century, characterized by masonry construction around a central plan, with domes on penditives, typically depicting the figure of Christ; foliage patterns on stone capitals; ...

Doric order - a classical order most readily distinguished by its simple, unornamented capitals and the tablets with vertical grooving, called triglyphs, set at regular intervals in the frieze.

Fig.5: Pillars (A) with capitals (B) and quatri-partite vaulting (D) containing keystones (C) of the ambulatory of the Cathedral of St-Gervais and St-Protais at Soissons (photo: Athena Review)].

Three-Part Vertical Block buildings are analogous to the divisions of classical columns with their bases, shafts, and capitals. These facades were fully developed by the 1890s during the Richardsonian style.

Doric Order -- A classical order with simple, unadorned capitals. Dormer Window -- A window that projects from a roof. Double Hung Window -- A window with two sashes, one sliding vertically over the other.

foliate Decorative leafage, often applied to capitals or moldings. French door, window A tall casement window that reaches to the floor, usually arranged in two leaves as a double door.

Architrave : The main beam that sets on column capitals and forms the lowest part of an entablature. Balustrade Balustrade: A railing composed of a series of upright members, often in a vase-shape, with a top rail and often a bottom rail.

Corinthian order - classical fluted columns, slender with ornate capitals decorated with stylized leaves corner boards - placed at the ends of exterior walls to protect the siding (ie. green on Burnett's) ...

waterleaf A carved design for column capitals of simple sinuous foliate designs, similar to acanthus. wainscoting Decorative paneling covering the lower 3-4 feet of an interior wall.

that demanded the grounding of every downward thrust of vault rib either at the pavement or on the abacus of the pier or column caps, was not operative, and in most cases the vault shafts were stopped on corbels above the level of nave capitals.

a Classical order of architecture, with very decorative capitals. Cornice a crowning projection. In Classical architecture, the crowning or upper portion of the entablature.

Detail showing pilaster strips with capitals surrounding the front door on a Cape Cod house. Definition: ...

The uppermost elements of a column. In classical architecture capitals are one of the most distinctive elements defining the different orders. Column ...

Fusarole - A fusarole is a moulding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture. ©2007 The Probert Encyclopaedia. Data used under license. return to top ...

Good example of large wooden posts capped with zapattas (capitals), a Spanish colonial form replicated for use in the Santa Fe style. 5. Santa Fe, NM. 6. Santa Fe, NM.

Ionic order: one of the three orders of Greek architecture; characterized by ornamental scrolls on the capitals. Jerkinhead roof: a roof in which the end of a gable roof is cut off by a secondary slope forming a hip.

The most predominant features of Neoclassical Revival buildings are massive columns and decorated capitals, usually Ionic or Corinthian. Other features of this formal style include: ...

volute: the spiral scroll on the corners of Ionic and Corinthian capitals; immediately beneath the abacus. voussoir: a wedge-shaped stone or brick in an arch.

Acanthus leaf - a design based on the leaf of the acanthus plant, much used in the decoration of Greek, Roman and Renaissance capitals. There were subtle differences between the three.

These squat, square columns often rest on massive, trapezoid-shaped bases, or piers, and often have floral or other decorations on their capitals.

The interiors underwent a drastic simplification by eliminating the capitals of all the piers and reducing them to plain masonry supports.

The most effective way to differentiate among them is by describing the capitals in general terms. A. Doric. Capital is plain. B. Ionic. Capital is decorated with VOLUTES (scrolls- which look like "eyes", "I" for Ionic). C. Corinthian.

Pool has convenient access for drawing water, usually for garden use dipping wellA Dipping well has convenient access for drawing water, often in a medieval town or monastery garden doric orderDoric is an Order or Architecture in which the capitals ...

Mould (moulding) - A member of construction or decoration, treated to introduce varieties of outline or contour in edges of surfaces, whether on projections or cavities, as on cornices, capitals, bases, door and window jambs and heads.

Corinthian (latest and most ornate Order) Corinthian columns are slender, usually fluted, with capitals elaborately carved with acanthus leaves. coping - a cap or covering on top of a wall, either flat or sloping, to shed water ...

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