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shellac
A coating made from purified lac dissolved in alcohol, often bleached white. Historical Note: The word lacquer is derived from the word lac, which describes the secretions of the lac beetle.
Shell-keep - Circular or oval wall surrounding inner portion of castle; usually stores and accommodations inside the hollow walls.
Sill - Lower horizontal face of an opening.
Sleeper - Lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Shell Motive:
Decorative carving in the form of a scallop shell, popular in Queen Anne and Chippendale styles.
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Carved shell hood
Console or other porch brackets
Internal doorways: Adamesque details on surround ...
SHELL KEEP: Circular or oval wall surrounding inner portion of castle.
SIEGE: Surrounding and attacking a castle, usually, a prolonged attack.
SLITS: Narrow opening in a wall through which defenders can fire arrows at attackers.
Shell-keep
round wall, usually built on top of a motte, in which the castle buildings are built up against the inner wall forming a circular courtyard
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Shell keep: The 'motte and bailey castles' of the Normans served their purpose well in the subjugation of England but wood does burns and rots, and stone last much longer.
The double shell was also employed by Michelangelo in the dome of St Peter's at Rome, the outer shell being raised higher than the lower and connected by ribs one with the other. The diameter is 140 ft.
The startling, shell-shaped Sydney Opera House in Australia is a finalist in the campaign to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World.
Coquillage - Seashell-styled decoration
Corbel - Bracket or block projecting from the face of a wall
Corbiestep - Stepped-end gable ...
The process of building a vault requires first a temporary carpentry structure, called centring, which supports the masonry until the shell has been completed and the mortar has set.
grotto an underground passage, often decorated with crystals, bits of broken shells, and broken pieces of mirror, and involving running water in rills and pools; all of this is calculated to create a mysterious effect.
rocailleRocaille is rockwork, shellwork or pebblework. rock gardenA Rock Garden is a place for growing mountain plants (eg from the Alps and Himalayas).
1720, developed out of Baroque types, and characterized by its ornamentation of shellwork, foliage, etc., and its refined use of different materials, such as stucco, metal, or wood for a delicate effect.
The dome is composed of two parts, an inner dome and an outer shell. The inner dome is approximately the same height as the iwans whilst the outer dome towers above.
RoachA rough-textured form of Portland stone, with small cavities and fossil shells.
The term rococo comes from the French rocaille,"rock-work," and hallmarks of the full-fledged style are architectural decoration based on arabesques, shells, elaborate curves, and asymmetry; iridescent pastel colors; and, in painting, ...
Into this frame was then poured limeshell mortar mixed with sand and oyster shells. When that section had set, the boards were raised a level and the process repeated. Used as a kind of cement to coat Spanish Colonial architecture.
1917 - Georges Biet's Art Nouveau house and apartment building in Nancy, France is severely damaged by combat shells, but will be rebuilt nearly exactly as before in 1922.
1916 - De Stijl movement founded in the Netherlands.
Hyperbolic paraboloid roof - A special form of double-curved shell, the geometry of which is generated by straight lines. This property makes it fairly easy to construct.
Ranging in colour from russet red, to greenish brown or blue grey, this hard limestone containing many small shells, is called 'marble' due to its ability to take a very high polish.
A decorative element in the shape of a sea-shell.
Scotia
A concave moulding between two fillets. A scotia is one of the elements used in the Attic base of columns.
Purbeck
A dark-coloured, shelly limestone from the Isle of Purbeck (Dorset) that can be polished to a high sheen.
Scallop
- ornament carved in the form of a shell, often above doorways.
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Improved vaulting techniques also helped take the strain of supporting the building's weight off the walls, which could then become little more than shells with broad window openings.
rococo : A style originating in France c. 1720, developed out of Baroque types, and characterized by its ornamentation of shellwork, foliage, etc., and its refined use of different materials, such as stucco, metal, or wood for a delicate effect.
Framed construction - A structure built with a strong skeleton frame made of timber or steel, against which a brick outer shell is added.
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It was in 1627 during a battle with the Venetians that a shell struck a gunpowder storage in the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens and blew it up. In the late 1700's the Russians came to Greece in an effort to expand their power base.
-Bamboo, was used for the wall lathing which was coated with a mixture of clay, sand and straw fibres, or with a variety of hydrated lime made of limestone or oyster shells.
Dentil blocks run along the base of the cornice. The agraffe has fish scales similar to those on the upper spandrel. The top ornaments are cockle shells, a Rococo flourish, with ornate volutes around a stylized acanthus.
The double-shelled dome filled with a frescoed rendering of celestial glory is complemented by a high altar designed as a careful adaptation of the baldacchino in St.
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