Eared overmantel and surround
Pediments and broken pediments on overmantels
Classical engaged columns in surround ...
(eared) a projecting molding over doors, window, and archways to direct rain away from the opening. The õearedöextensions at the head casing trim approximate stone details found in Greek and Roman Classical architecture.
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This style appeared after the Cape Cod and is typical of the horizontal look of the post-World War II suburbs. The floor plans are squarish, not rectangular as in the later California Ranch style. What is architecturally distinctive about this house?
Esplanade
- cleared space on which people can walk, as a relief from the overcrowding of the town or fort, and which offers a field of fire to defenders, situated between a town and its citadel or immediately within the walls of a fortification.
When he entered it there appeared to him to be nothing there at all except the images of terrible destruction and death. Seeing this savage punishment of Christian folk Badilo began out of piety to weep and sob bitterly.
In Italy Gothic feeling as well as Gothic forms had disappeared altogether by the end of the fifteenth century, the last flicker of the instinctive art of medievalism, as distinguished from the premeditated artifice of the Renaissance, ...
The following year Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris appeared, in which the great Gothic cathedral of Paris was at once a setting and a protagonist in a hugely popular work of fiction.
Tholos : beehive tombs developed from Mycenaean shaft tombs, which first appeared around 1600 BC. After about 1500 BC, beehive tombs became more widespread.
The idea appeared in Western Asia in ancient times and was common until the nineteenth century. The Wilhelmina in Stuttgart is still managed as a combined botanical garden and zoo.
The Haram was cleared of its Christian accretions and reconsecrated as Muslim sanctuary. The cross was removed from the top of the Dome of the Rock and replaced with a golden crescent and a wooden screen was placed around the rock below.
The ornament as painted by the Greeks has almost entirely disappeared, but traces are found in the temple of Nemesis at Rhamnus; and on the terra-cotta slabs by which the timber roofs of Greek temples were protected, ...
The Romanesque Revival appeared almost simultaneously in Europe and North America inspired, in part, by the writings of the critic John Ruskin who was tired of the Classical style and the Greek architectural vocabulary.
In France, during the first half of the 12th century, Gothic rib vaulting appeared sporadically in a number of churches.
- Wooden seats or benches in the church; these only appeared at the end of the Mediæval period.
Perpendicular. - ca. 1350-1540; last phase of Gothic architecture, characterized by tracery with patterns of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
His designs and articles have appeared in Traditional Building Magazine, Home, Old-House Journal, Yankee Home magazine and other publications.
The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to necessitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a great standing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, ...
Also called an eared architrave.LunetteSemicircular window or blind panel.Lychgate(lit. corpse-gate): Roofed gateway entrance to a churchyard for the reception of a coffin.
Develed in Italy and western Europe, Romanesque architecture appeared after the Roman classical period and prior to the Gothic period.
Sea-shell
A decorative element in the shape of a sea-shell.
Portico - A porch that is leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea first appeared in ancient Greece and has influenced many ...
Hundreds of Googie buildings dotted Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue, especially around the theme park, in the 1960s and 1970s; gradually, most of them have disappeared, ...
Numerous catalogs and books appeared, many in multiple editions, including William A. Radford's Artistic Bungalows (1908), Henry L. Wilson's Bungalow Book (1910), Henry H. Saylor's Bungalow Book (1911), H. V.
Bed alcoves exist in Pompeian rooms, and such placing of the sleeping quarters was common in northern Europe through the Middle Ages and later. In the 18th century, designs of special beds such recesses appeared.
You cannot even see the original floor where all of the fighting and shows took place. However, not all of those things are gone but they are hard to find. Most of it has disappeared because of the earthquakes, pollution, and human mistreatment.
By about 1930, Modernism had severed architecture's links with the past. Suddenly it became incorrect for a new building to make any reference to previous styles; and for a period of time the study of historical styles almost disappeared from ...
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