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Cushion capitals can also be found in Richardsonian Romanesque style
Examples from Buffalo architecture
Illustration above: St. Francis RC Church ...
Cushion - Capital cut from a block by rounding off the lower corners.
Cusp - Curves meeting in a point.
Cyclopean - Drystone masonry, ancient, of huge blocks.
Cushion, Block, or Cubic Capital
A simple cube-like capital with the bottom corners tapered.
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block, cushion, or cubic capital
A simple cube-like capital with bottom corners tapered. The block capital is particularly characteristic of Ottonian and Romanesque architecture in Germany and England. See also capital, column.
Cushion Capital - a simple rectangular or cube-like capital with the bottom corners tapered.
Entablature - a lintel-like feature supported by columns or pilasters and usually placed over a doorway or window.
Cushion - the sides of the Ionic capital. It is also applied to an early and simple form of the Romanesque capitals of Germany and England, which consist of cubical masses, square at the top and rounded off at the four corners, ...
(lit. cushioned): Of a frieze: of bold convex profile.PurbeckA dark limestone from Purbeck in Dorset, which can be polished; used especially in the first two centuries of English Gothic architecture.Purlin ...
Cushion capital: Capital cut from a block by rounding off the lower corners. Cusp: A curved, triangular-shaped projection from the inner curve of an arch or circle; Curves meeting in a point.
The direct influence is seen in the adaptation of certain techniques for Islamic buildings such as cushion-shaped voussoirs and folded cross vaults, all of which can be found in the Mamluk buildings of Jerusalem.
A tightly stuffed, upholstered cushion used as a footstool or seat.
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An English designer in the 18th century who frequently co-operated with the Adams Brothers. He wrote "The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide." ...
The earliest ,type of capital in Lombardy and Germany is that which is known as the cushion-cap, in which the lower portion of the cube block has been cut away to meet the circular shaft (fig. II).
It had a steel frame to withstand high winds and high-speed elevators with air cushions that would stop a car from falling. The ornate lobby was lavished with marble, bronze and mosaics.
The Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes under a canopy of estate, on a dais: there is a cushion under his feet
Margaret Beaufort, Queen Mother, at prayer, by an anonymous artist, about 1500 ...
Echinus - A convex moulding below the Abacus of a Doric Capital. Also the moulding, covered with Egg and Dart, under cushion of a Ionic capital.
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