Cushion Capital

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 capital
A capital resembling a cushion that is pressed down because of the weight on it.
In medieval, esp. Norman, architecture, a cubic capital with its lower angles rounded off
Illustration: St. Francis Xavier RC Church ...

Cushion Capital - A cushion capital is a capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature.

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.

Doric Order: The column and entablature developed by the Dorian Greeks, sturdy in proportion, with a simple cushion capital, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and mutules in the cornice.

found in St Mark's, Venice; St Luke's, Delphi; the mosques of Kairawan and of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, in the two latter cases FIG. I I. - Cushion Capital.
FIG. 13. - Gothic Capitals from Wells Cathedral.

Topic: Architecture