Evens Sculptured Metopes Discovered among the ruins of Selinus 1823
Peter Oluf Brøndsted Voyages et recherches dans le Grèce 1826-30
Otto Magnus Stackelberg Der Apollotempel zu Bassae in Arcadien 1826 ...
Above the columns are the metopes and triglyphs. The metope [pronounced "met-o-pee"] is a plain, smooth stone section between triglyphs. Sometimes the metopes had statues of heroes or gods on them.
Metopes
The spaces between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often ornamented with sculpture.MezzanineLow storey between two higher ones.
Found in Doric entablatures, a block separating the metopes, having three vertical channels.
TRIGLYPH A rectangular block between metopes in a Doric frieze usually ornamented by vertical grooves.
VERGEBOARD See bargeboard.
VESTRY A room attached to a church, where the clergy and choir robe in religious garments.
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 ...
Doric entablature: A plain architrave, a frieze of alternating triglyphs and metopes, and a plain crowning cornice.
The soffit (underside) of the cornice bore projecting square blocks known as mutules ...
triglyph: a vertically-grooved block separating metopes in a Doric frieze, possibly originally covering the ends of wooden roof beams.
trompe l’oeil: illusionistic painting.
Their punishment by Heracles is represented on one of the earlier metopes from Selinus.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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Triglyph
- the blocks with vertical grooves separating the metopes in a doric frieze. Said to represent beam ends.
See Classical Architecture.
in a Doric frieze, the rectangular area between the metopes, decorated with three vertical grooves (glyphs).
Trilithon
an ancient monument consisting of two vertical megaliths supporting a third as a lintel.
Frieze - The section of an entablature between the cornice and the architrave. It can be decorated with continuous reliefs (as in Ionic), divided into metopes and triglyphs (as in Doric), ...
In classical architecture, one of a series of raised ornamental panels in a Doric frieze that consist of three vertical bands; triglyphs alternate with metopes.
A rectangular detail, representative of the beams used in post and beam construction. In the Doric order, regularly spaced triglyphs appear on the frieze. The spaces between the triglyphs are called metopes.
Tuscan Order ...
triglyph - the characteristic ornament of the Doric frieze, consisting of slightly rasied blocks of three vertical bands separated by V-shaped grooves. The tryglyphs alternate with plain or sculptured panels called metopes.
tablets of the Doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided - the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned as one. The square sunk spaces between the triglyphs on a frieze are called metopes.
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).
or panel, or used decoratively in blank arches and vaults TRIGLYPH: a block separating metopes in a Doric frieze; each has two vertical grooves (or glyphs) in the center and half grooves at the edges TURRET: a very small, ...
 See also: Frieze, Doric, Triglyph, Greek, Triglyphs
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