Bellflower
Classical floral motif of 3 or 5 narrow pointed petals in bell shape, carved or inlaid
A popular 18th Century carved motif used as a furniture and interior enrichment.
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower ...
ballflower
A globular motif often used in concave moldings of English Gothic architecture. It looks like a flower with three (or sometimes four) petals nearly closed over a central ball. See also other repetative decorative motifs ...
ball flower - three leaves embracing a ball; 14th century Gloucester English design; also called "bell flower".
Ball flower : An ornamented ball sculpture surmounted in the petals of a flower.
Bar tracery : The dominant class of Tracery consisting of decorative patterns formed from stone bars..
Globular flower of three petals enclosing a ball. Typical of the years c. 1300-30, during the Decorated phase of English medieval architecture.Baluster, balustrade ...
A stylised flower, usually based on the lily and with three petals. This is used a great deal in medieval and Tudor architecture as a decoration, owing to its connection to the Royal coat of arms and the Virgin Mary.
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Imitation of flowers, or cusping of an arch.
Frescoes
Mural paintings.
A decorativecarved flower or leaf, often (usually) rectiliniar.
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The container/ basin for the water used for baptism.
The most common markings are interlocking circles (some carved to create a six-petalled daisy flower effect), concentric circles and intersecting lines creating crosses and M's representing the Virgin Mary or double V's for ' ...
cinquefoil Ornamental tracery in the form of a flower with five symmetrical petals. clerestory From "clear story." The uppermost level of nave walls, usually containing windows.
The word comes from the Greek word (balustion) for a pomegranate flower which resembles the shape of a baluster.Example 1: Italian garden history, Example 2: Roman Baroque baoliBaoli (or Baori): a stepwell or tank, as built throughout India.
"lily flower"), an heraldic device, very widespread in the armorial bearings of all countries, but more particularly associated with the royal house of France.
A baluster (through the French balustre, from Italian balaustro, from balaustra, "pomegranate flower" [from a resemblance to the post], from Lat. balaustium, from Gr. balaustion) is a moulded shaft, square or circular, ...
Mughal architecture excels in the quality of its carved stonework, from shallow relief depictions of flowers to intricate pierced-marble screens known as jalis.
It often uses flowers as ornamentation and animal or human sculptures around the outside of buildings. Some examples include: the Coliseum and the Temple of Apollo.
Egyptian architecture - Often carved from stone columns.
With the chevet as fully developed as it now appears in St-Denis, there remains only the gradual perfection and refinement of the structural system and the giving it that quality of distinctive beauty in every aspect that was to be the very flowering ...
Florence continued to maintain a commanding position in the flowering of Renaissance art in Italy, although other regions provided important masters throughout the entire period.
Rococo came to full flower, however, in Bavaria and Austria. The Austrian Benedictine Abbey (1748-1754) at Ottobeuren by Johann Michael Fischer is only one of a brilliant series of spectacular churches, monasteries, ...
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, the collecting of exotic plants and the production under glass of out-of-season flowers and fruits were popular pastimes among those who could afford this kind of luxury.
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The capital of the Corinthian structure is intricately carved with acanthus leaves, foliage, or different flowers. Unlike the Ionic the Corinthian capital flows upward to enhance the height of the column.
Some other things that make this type of architecture different from all of the others, is the use of flowers in their decorations. In many houses, you can see some houses with some type of flower design on it.
With prosperity comes of flowering of the arts. In music there was Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn. In literature Jane Austin, Coleridge, Fielding and Wordsworth, and the visual artists Blake, Constable and Gainsborough among others.
An ornament used as a terminating motif usually in the form of a ball, flame, flower, acorn, pineapple, or vase.
Fleur-de-lis
The conventionalized iris flower used by the former kings of France as a decorative motif symbolizing royalty.
festoon (9) -- chain or garland of flowers, leaves, suspended in a curved form between two points, or a carved or moulded ornament representing a garland (Oxford Dict.)
fibula (28) -- a dress pin with a clasp. (Biers, 336) ...
anthemion a stylized representation o the honeysuckle flower, most often used in conjunction with palmettes in a frieze.
apse In a church, a semicircular or polygonal projection at the altar (usually east) end, beyond the sanctuary.
FINIAL A sculptured ornament, often in the shape of a leaf or flower, at the top of a gable, pinnacle, or similar structure.
An form that has four lobes or foils, resembling a four-petaled flower. In architecture, a quatrefoil plan is a four lobed structure in which the walls represent four leaves or petals with a dome on top. It is a common plan in Armenian architecture.
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anthemion: a Greek form of ornament based on the honeysuckle flower and leaves.
antis: as in a portico in antis, which is recessed so that the columns are flush with the walls of the building on either side.
Festoons / Swags
- ornament in the form of a garland of fruit or flowers, suspended near both both ends, so that the centre sags and the ends hang vertically. Commonly called a swag.
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Vase in the shape of a horn, filled with fruit and decorated with flowers. A classic symbol of abundance.
Crosier. Staff, resembling a shepherd's crook, carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office.
Cross vault. * Vault.
Festoon - A carved ornament in the form of a garland of fruit and flowers, tied with ribbons and suspended at both ends in a loop, commonly used on a frieze or panel and also called a swag.
Known as Federal because the style flowered in early decades of U.S. Basically, Georgian style with Adamesque enhancements. The main identifying feature is typically the fanlight entryway with classical (Greek) detailing and common palladian windows.
Ornamental tracery in the form of a five petaled flower.
CLERESTRY
The upper storey walls of the nave of a church, pierced by high windows.
Swag - A carved ornament in the form of a draped cloth or a festoon of fruit or flowers.
Terra cotta - Hard fired clay, either glazed or unglazed, molded into ornamental elements, wall cladding and roof tiles.
decorative representation of a festoon of cloth or flowers and fruit suspended from both ends.
Tablet
flat slab of wood or stone.
Those who behold them embrace, as it were, the living body itself in its full flower, they bring eye, mouth, ear, all their senses into play, and then, shedding tears of reverence and passion, ...
garland - a curved hanging festoon of leaves or flowers. Frequently used in combination with the swag as an applied ornamental device.
quatrefoil: An ornamental form which has four lobes or foils. It may resemble a four-petaled flower Compare with cinqfoil, trefoil.
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refectory: Dining room in a monastery Other parts of monastery: chapter house, cloister, scriptorium ...
The Corinthian capitals have flowers and leaves below a small scroll. The shaft has flutes and the base is like the Ionian. Unlike the Doric and Ionian cornices, which are at a slant, the Corinthian roofs are flat.
a picture consisting principally of inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, or pottery.
Stratigraphy
a technique for determining a chronology by studying the relative locations of layers of material in an archaeological site.
TREFOIL
Ornamental tracery in the form of a flower with three symmetrical petals.
TURRET
Very small tower, round or polygonal in plan.
quatrefoil : A quatrefoil window is a round window which is composed of four equal lobes, like a four-petaled flower. The quatrefoil pattern is common in Moorish and gothic architecture.
patera - A small, round or oval in a medallion as seen in door or window moldings, plain or richly decorated with leaves or flowers. (pl. paterae) ...
Garden - A piece of ground on which flowers are cultivated.
Geodesic Dome - Hemispherical dome made of prefabricated geometrically shaped units interconnecting to give stability in all directions.
The edifices erected by the Moors and Saracens in Spain, Egypt, and Turkey are distinguished, among other things, by a peculiar form of the arch, which forms a curve constituting more than half of a circle or ellipse. A peculiar flowery decoration, ...
The design was derived from a type of French keep, which provided and all round field of fire, and a similar design was later adopted for the artillery forts of the Tudors. Also known as a clover-leaf keep or a four-leafed flower keep.
parterre a flower garden with beds and paths designed to form a pattern, the outdoor and botanical equivalent to an indoor Persian carpet; literally "on the ground" in French.
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