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Pulvinated Frieze
in Classical and Renaissance architecture, a frieze having a convex or bulging section.
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Pulvinated
- a term applied to a frieze (pulvinated freize) which has a convex secion ie which bulges outwards ...
Pulvinated frieze (lit. cushioned): of bold convex profile. Also a horizontal band of ornament.FrontalCovering for the front of an altar.
imbricate or imbricated, intercolumniation, invert, joggle post or king post, lanceted, lierne, lintel or summer, listed, loggia, member, module, Moresque, naos, order, orientation, polychromy, postiche, profile, prostyle, pulvinate or pulvinated, ...
In some of the Roman temples, as in the temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the temple of the Sun, the frieze is elaborately carved and in later work is made convex, to which the term "pulvinated" is given.
 See also: Frieze, Architecture, Cushion, Crown, Entablature
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