Frontispiece
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FRONTISPIECE (through the French, from Med. Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the English spelling is a mistaken adaptation to "piece"), ...
frontispiece - front illustration facing the title page of a book
front - the side that is seen or that goes first
Translations ...
Frontispiece
A portion of the façade of a building, usually a centered doorway, that is slightly raised from the rest of the building and has extensive ornamentation. Frontispieces are generally Classical in design.
Stratford ...
frontispiece:
a facade, especially an ornamental facade; a small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window
gable:
the triangular wall section at the ends of a pitched roof, bounded by the two roof slopes and the ridge pole ...
FRONTISPIECE The principal bay of a building.
GIANT or COLOSSAL ORDER A column or pilaster extending beyond one storey.
GLAZING BAR Wooden or lead dividers in a window.
frontispiece: decorated composition emphasising the entrance bay of a Renaissance house.
galilee: a large enclosed porch at the west end of a cathedral or abbey-church.
Frontispiece - Special architectural expression of the principal entrance bay, or the principal façade of a building.
Gable - The triangular upper wall at the end of a pitched roof, sometimes with a decorated bargeboard or roughcast.
Antependium : Decorated frontispiece to an altar, featuring allegorical figures in tapestry or carved forms.
Canopy : An overhanging shade or shelter above an artwork or statue, sometimes situated upon pillars.
The frontispiece, crowned with a separate aggrandized roof, is infused with remarkable plasticity and the whole ensemble reads like a three-dimensional whole.
often includes square tower or projecting central section [frontispiece]
low pitched hip roof
wide eaves with prominent decorative brackets ...
An articulated portion of the facade of a building, often higher than, or projecting forward from, the rest. If it is in the centre, it is called a frontispiece.
pedestal
In classical architecture, the base supporting a column or colonnade.
Also a horizontal band of ornament.FrontalCovering for the front of an altar.FrontispieceIn 16th- and 17th-century buildings, the central feature of doorway and windows above linked in one composition.Frost-work ...
stepped frontispiece and stepped window head
Volutes in door surrounds
Strips of windows with decorated iron grille work in surrounds to add vertical feeling
Metal windows: sash, casement ...
 See also: Ornament, Doorway, Decorated, Architecture, House
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