Pinnacle
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PINNACLE (from Lat. pinnaculum, a little feather, pinna; the Gr. 7rmpirytov, diminutive of 7r7puE, wing, is also used in this sense), ...
pinnacle - the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; ...
Pinnacle
In Gothic architecture, a small turret-like termination on the top of buttresses, parapets, or elsewhere
Often ornamented with bunches of foliage called crockets ...
Pinnacle, Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend, Belgium
A pinnacle (from Latin pinnaculum, a little feather, pinna, compare panache) is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, ...
Pinnacle
A tower, primarily ornamental, that also functions in Gothic architecture to give additional weight to a buttress or a pier.
pinnacle - a slender, pointed summit placed on top of buttresses, gables, etc.
plate tracery - the simplest, earliest form of tracery, ca. 1300.
pinnacle
A pointed termination of a spire, buttress, or other extremity of a building. Pinnacles are sometimes ornamented. Compare with spire.
pitch ...
Pinnacle: Small narrow pointed tower capping buttresses and openwork gablets or portals and galleries.
Portal: The door or entrance of a cathedral (fig.3).
PINNACLE A conical ornament surmounting a gable or buttress in medieval architecture.
PORTE-COCHÈRE A porch or portico designed to admit a carriage.
PORTICO A porch with columns and usually a pediment.
Pinnacle - Ornamental crowning spire, tower, etc.
Piscina - Hand basin with drain, usually set against or into a wall.
Pitch - Roof slope.
pinnacle: small ornamental turret usually ending in a pyramid or cone crowning a buttress or roof.
plasticity: sculptural modelling.
plate-tracery: tracery consisting of apertures apparently punched out of the masonry.
Pinnacle. Element which crowns a façade, dome etc. Often used in Gothic architecture sometimes as a purely decorative feature on doorways.
Pinnacle :A vertical ornament forming the spire of a turret.
Predella : A series of small images or carvings at the base of an altarpiece.
Quadratura : An intended architectural illusion used to create the sense of a larger room.
Pinnacle: A vertical ornament forming the spire of a turret.
Rose Window: A circular window composed of patterned tracery arranged in petal-like, or Rose-like,, formation. ...
roof ENGAGED COLUMN: a column attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall or pier EYE: the center of a volute FACADE: the front of face or a building, emphasized architecturally FINIAL: a formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, or pinnacle ...
Towers in particular were elaborately decorated and pinnacled, and windows became massive, traceried spider-webs of stone like lace.
Mosques are distinguished by large minaret-like towers above the mihrab and tapering buttresses terminating in cone-shaped pinnacles. The mihrab towers are usually covered with projecting wooden stakes, known as 'toron'.
Pinnacles
Flat roofs with Battlements, or gable roofs with parapets
Leaded glass
Quatrefoil and clover shaped windows
Oriel windows ...
In this text, the bishop is understood as the "hierarch" or pinnacle of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. In this function, the bishop best approximates the divine on earth.
Flared chimney tops, weather vanes, and pinnacles were additional elements. Windows were typically double-hung sash. Cut-away bay windows were sometimes one-over-one with the upper panel including small square or artistically shaped panes.
Crockets are usually found on the raking edge of finials, pinnacles and spires. Here they are on the top edge of an ogee shaped hood mould. Above the lower windows is a cornice with a pointed arch frieze and battlementing along the top.
A small ornament on top of a spire, pinnacle or gable.
Fish-Scale Shingles
Overlapping wooden tiles used to clad exterior walls; may take various shapes such as fish-scales, diamonds or squares.
a stylised ornament at the top of a pinnacle, gable, canopy etc
Flemish Bond
a type of brickwork in which alternate headers and stretchers in each course appear on the wall face.
At the peak of the Sullivanesque period, the skyscraper was the pinnacle of architectural commissions, and many cities had one or more Sullivanesque high-rise buildings.
Early Gothic Revival churches, with large, pointed arch windows, steeple pinnacles and light ornament, have a rather delicate air. Stone churches from the mid 1800s look more medieval with heavy stonework and buttresses.
a small decorative element at the top of an architectural member such as a gable or pinnacle, or of a smaller object such as a bronze vessel.
Fire (verb)
to prepare (especially ceramics) by baking in a kiln or otherwise applying heat.
Acroterion
- ornament, usually pointed, for example in the shape of a pinnacle, but can be in form of plinths and statues, on the apex or at the ends of a pediment.
Finial - A formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, pinnacle, etc.; usually a detached foliated fleur-de-lis form.
Finial Viollet-Le-Duc ...
In Gothic architecture, leafy hooks or knobs, as on a crocket capital. Crocketing (rows of crockets) decorates the edges of pinnacles, canopies, etc.
crocket An ornamental foliate form placed at regularly spaced intervals on the slopes and edges of the spires, pinnacles, gables, and similar elements of Gothic buildings.
cupola A small dome on a base crowning a roof.
A projecting, foliate ornament of a capital, pinnacle, gable or buttress.
finial - an ornament, often urn-shaped, used to decorate the top of a spire, gable, or pinnacle
frieze - an ornamental horizontal band or strip in a wall ...
crockets:
an ornamental device, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf placed along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables
cupola:
a small structure built on top of a roof ...
Finial
A small, decorative appendage that finishes an architectural element, especially at the tip of a pinnacle, spire or other tapering vertical element. From the Latin finis, meaning "end".
The overall evolution and sophistication of the buttressing, windows, coloration and stonework all combine in this stage to create truly magnificent pinnacles of Gothic architecture.
High Gothic Cathedrals include: ...
Its striking characteristics are its pointed arches, its pinnacles and spires, its large buttresses, clustered pillars, vaulted roofs, profusion of ornament, and, on the whole, its lofty, bold character.
Pinnacle - ornamental crowning spire, tower, etc.
Pipe rolls - annual accounts of sheriffs rendered to the king.
Piscina - hand basin with drain, usually set against or into a wall.
Pitch - roof slope.
and higher; his poise and counterpoise, his linkage of thrust and strain grew more complicated and daring, until material mass disappeared from his design and his cathedrals were chain-works of articulated stone pegged to the ground by pinnacles ...
Another good example of a castellated parapet (referred to as "battlements" if occurs on turrets or towers), and narrow pinnacles.
25-26. Chicago, IL. Tribune Tower, c.1923-1925.
 See also: Architecture, Ornament, House, Tower, Gothic
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