or a dome LINTEL: a horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening LOAD BEARING CONSTRUCTION: construction in which walls, posts, columns, or arcades support the weight of the ceilings and upper floors METOPE: the square space between two triglyphs in ...
The Doric frieze had a structural origin as the triglyphs suggest vertical support.
In the Doric order, the sloped underside of the horizontal geison is decorated with a series of protruding, rectangular mutules aligned with the triglyphs and metopes of the Doric frieze below.
Guttae - small projections under the triglyphs in a doric frieze. Said to represent pegs used in the original timber construction.
Metope - the square space between triglyphs in a doric frieze.
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.
The spaces between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often ornamented with sculpture.MezzanineLow storey between two higher ones.
Interval of the intercolumniation of the Doric column, which is observed by the intervention of one triglyph only between the triglyphs which come over the axes of the columns.
From Greek architecture, the space between the triglyphs in the frieze of the Doric order. Metopes were often filled with ceramic faces and figures; in commercial buildings these would advertise the commerce of the building.
The spaces between two triglyphs on a Doric frieze
Greek: "meta" = between + "ope" = an opening
In ancient examples, sometimes left open; afterwards applied to the carved slab ...
metope: the square panel between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
minaret: a tall slender tower with balconies, usually related to a mosque.
modillion: a bracket or console used in the Corinthian or Composite cornice.
METOPE A plain or decorated space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
MOUCHETTE A motif resembling a curved dragger, in Gothic tracery of the curvilinear style.
MULLION A vertical divider in a window.
Any of the spaces between two triglyphs on a Doric frieze.
[Greek metop : meta, between; see meta- + op, opening; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]
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Metope - The square space between two triglyphs in the frieze of a Doric order; it may carved or left plain.
Metope of Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs From south side of Parthenon ...
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.
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Metope: the panel, plain or sculptured, between the triglyphs of a Doric entablature
Modillions (consoles): the brackets supporting the projecting part of a Corinthian cornice ...
Doric order - a classical order most readily distinguished by its simple, unornamented capitals and the tablets with vertical grooving, called triglyphs, set at regular intervals in the frieze.
the square area, often decorated with relief sculpture, between the triglyphs of a Doric frieze.
Mezzanine
in architecture, an intermediate, lowceilinged story between two main stories.
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), ...
triglyph 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.
 See also: Triglyph, Doric, Frieze, Roman, Greek
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