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FRIEZE. 1. (Through the Fr. frise, and Ital. fregio, from the Lat. Phrygium, sc. opus, Phrygian or embroidered work), ...
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A frieze is a horizontal band that runs above doorways and windows or below the cornice. The frieze may be decorated with designs or carvings.
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The middle member of the classical entablature, sometimes ornamented. Pulvinated frieze (lit. cushioned): of bold convex profile. Also a horizontal band of ornament.FrontalCovering for the front of an altar.
Frieze - The middle division of an entablature, between the architrave and cornice; usually decorated but may be plain; or the decorated band along the upper part of an internal wall, immediately below the cornice.
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frieze:
a plain or decorated horizontal part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice; any decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of wall in a room ...
Frieze - Any sculpture or richly ornamental band in a building.
Frontage - The extent of a building or of land along a public road or a public waterway.
FRIEZE A frieze is the panel beneath the cornice at the top of a building' exterior wall which is often ornamented with brackets, dentils or modallions.
LINTEL The flat horizontal piece at the top of a window.
Frieze Board -- A flat board at the top of a wall directly beneath the cornice.
Gable -- The triangular section of a wall to carry a pitched roof.
Gable Roof -- A roof with a central ridge and one slope at each side., ...
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the middle zone in an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice; generally any band of ornament or colour immediately below a cornice.
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Frieze A band with designs or carvings along a wall or above doorways and windows. G
Gable A triangular area of an exterior wall formed by two sloping roofs.
FRIEZE The portion of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice: a decorative band.
FRONTISPIECE The principal bay of a building.
GIANT or COLOSSAL ORDER A column or pilaster extending beyond one storey.
Frieze - 1. The middle horizontal member of a classical entablature, above the architrave and below the cornice. 2. A similar decorative band in a stringcourse, or near the top of an interior wall below the cornice.
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The middle division of an entablature, below the cornice (all buildings with an entablature and columns have a frieze though most are not ornate as they were in ancient times).
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frieze (10) -- the architectural course between the architrave (which is supported by the columns/piers) and the cornice (Pedley, 354) ...
frieze The middle portion of an entablature, or any decorated horizontal band.
gallery A long room, often on an upper floor, for recreation, entertainment or display of artwork.
frieze: the central part of an entablature , above the architrave and below the cornice, sometimes decorated with figure sculpture.
frontispiece: decorated composition emphasising the entrance bay of a Renaissance house.
Frieze. The middle of the three main elements of an entablature. A horizontal band with cornice above and architrave below.
FRIEZE
The middle member of the classical entablature, sometimes ornamented. Also A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room.
FRIEZE A decorative horizontal band, as along the upper part of a wall in a room.
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frieze : The middle part of an entablature, often decorated with spiral scrolls (volutes).
Frieze
(a) the central section of the entablature in the Classical Orders; (b) any horizontal decorative band.
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Frieze
This is a continuous, decorative, horizontal band usually placed along the upper parts of a wall. Used to decorate the interior or exterior of a building.
Frieze
A feature of Classical architecture, principally found in between the cornice and the architrave. This can be plain, or elaborately decorated / carved, dependent on the type of column order that is used.
Frieze - Any horizontal band of decoration, but very often on verandahs in cast-iron or timber.
Frontispiece - Special architectural expression of the principal entrance bay, or the principal façade of a building.
Frieze
Originating from Greek architecture (600 - 400 B.C.), a frieze is a continuous horizontal band of carved or painted decoration. It was originally the middle band of an entablature which lies between the architrave and the cornice.
Frieze
- a decorated band on an internal wall below a cornice or the middle division of the entablature, usually heavily decorated. See Classical Architecture.
Frieze - an elongated carved architectural decoration.
Jamb - a vertical element of a doorway or window frame.
Key Stone - the voussoir at the top of an arch. It is important structurally since it marks the apex of the vault.
FRIEZE
Decorative band or board between a cornice and an architrave.
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Sitting below the cornice and above the architrave, the frieze is the central element of the entablature. The frieze may be left plain or decorated in relief.
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frieze - an ornamental horizontal band or strip in a wall
gable - (1) that part of the wall, triangular in shape, defined by the sloping sides of a double pitch or gable roof; (2) the end wall of a building.
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FRIEZE - Decorated band along the upper part of an interior wall.
FROG - A depression imprinted in the upper surface of a brick, to save clay, reduce weight and increase the strength of the wall. Bricks should always be laid frog uppermost.
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A decorative band usually placed along the top of a wall. Stencils cut from cow hides were used by workers to create repeated patterns such as this Greek key or stepped fret pattern.
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Foliated frieze: A panel decorated with carved foliage or leaves, found below the upper molding or cornice of a wall, and sometimes spanning the whole interior of the church.
as doors, traditionally glazed above and panelled below, but nowadays usually all glass Fretwork Apattern of interlaced, geometric openwork decoration, usually cut in thin timber by means of a fret-saw, and sometimes made of metal Frieze A ...
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.
FACADE: the front of face or a building, emphasized architecturally FINIAL: a formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, or pinnacle FLUTING: shallow, concave grooves running vertically on the shaft of a column, pilaster, or other surface FRIEZE: ...
cornice The upper part of an entablature, extending beyond the frieze. Back to Top
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dome A roof formed by a series of arches, roughly forming a semicircle.
In the Doric order, the sloped underside of the horizontal geison is decorated with a series of protruding, rectangular mutules aligned with the triglyphs and metopes of the Doric frieze below.
for the profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, frieze, ...
Entablature - Decorative moulding above the top of a Classical column, comprising architrave, frieze and cornice.
Entices - Convex curve in a column to correct for the optically concave effect of a column built straight.
The Tuscan column order has a plain design, with a plain tapered shaft, and a simple base, capital, and frieze. The order is a simplified variation of the Doric order by the Romans.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Gable or hipped, low-pitch roof; dentil cornice emphasized with wide band of trim -- cornice represents classical entablature (includes cornice, frieze, architrave); porches: square or rounded columns (usually Doric), ...
The wide cornice band represents the entablature of classical greek architecture consisting of the frieze and the architrave. Greek or roman columns are usually present to support the porch.
(also colarino or collarino) The little frieze of the capital of the Tuscan and Doric column placed between the astragal, and the annulets. It was ca...
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The best-known feature of this palace is the southern facade which consists of a delicately carved stone frieze incorporating animals and plant motifs within a geometric scheme of giant triangles.
Triglyph: projecting members separating the metopes of a Doric frieze and divided into three strips by two vertical grooves
Velatium: the awning stretched above a amphitheater to protect spectators from the sun ...
entablature - the part of building above the columns, contains the frieze and cornice
knee brace (strut) - a diagonal support across the angle formed by two perpendicular members.
See for example the frieze on the exterior of the Pantheon or the attic of the Arch of Titus. It is only rarely found in manuscripts. The extant manuscripts with square capitals are all copies of Virgil dating from the 4th or 5th centuries.
There are also two other types of classical orders, the Tuscan and the Composite. The Tuscan order is very plain, with a plain shaft, a simple capital and base, and a plain frieze.
Elizabethan style was eclectic, borrowing decorative motifs from Continental Gothic, Italian, and Flemish design; exteriors and interiors were elaborately ornamented with relief work, mullions, ornate chimneys, and friezes.
The example shown was built by a banker. The most easily identified features of Greek temple-front buildings are columns and pilasters, bold and simple moldings, pedimented gables, and heavy cornices with unadorned friezes.
square or rounded columns; facade pilasters; front door accented by line of rectangular transom lights above the door and sidelights; elaborate door surround; symmetrically arranged 6-over-6 windows (although later 2-over-2 became popular); frieze ...
The sculptural program included a frieze narrating the Panathenaic Procession, metopes depicting the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs, and, in the pediments, the Contest Between Athena and Poseidon (west) and the Birth of Athena (east).
Fortalice - small fort or outworks of a fortification.
Fosse - ditch.
Freestone - high quality sandstone or limestone.
Fresco - painting on wet plaster wall.
Frieze - a horizontal band of ornament.
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Frieze - The area of an internal wall above the picture rail.
Frog - an indention, usually V shaped in the bedding face of the brick to reduce its weight. "Frog down " or "Frog up" are the generally accepted ways of describing how the brick are laid.
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