Dry Well - A covered pit with open-jointed linings through which drainage from roofs, basement floors, or areaways may seep or leach into the surrounding porous soil.
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Well-designed emergency exit signs are necessary for emergency exits to be effective. In the United States fire escape signs usually display the word "EXIT" in large, well-lit, green or red letters. Sometimes an arrow is displayed as well.
Well-known artists include Michelangelo, E1 Greco, Raphael, Giorgio Vasari and Annibale Carracci.
The art of papal Rome: exhibiting now at the National Gallery of ... by Williams, Lorraine / Catholic Insight ...
Well-hole, the open space enclosed by the stairs.
Flight, a continuous series of steps between two landings.
Well into the twentieth century, priests and ministers were revered and even adored. Before the 1950s, any male film star worth his salt was cast at least once as the romantic hero in a movie.
Well-equipped medieval pilgrim with an ample cape, sturdy boots, a broad-brimmed hat, and a walking stick with a hook for hanging a drinking gourd. The hat will be adorned with a scallop shell.
St. James the Moor Slayer.
Stained glass: ...
A well-publicized, world-class event can inspire fashion for years. At least that's the case with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, ...
A well-chosen selection of contrasting trim and accent colors can draw attention to architectural details and disguise design flaws.
As well as tomb towers and domed octagonal mausoleums, a third category of tomb is represented by the great shrines of Mashad, Qum and Mahan.
It is well known that the Ezra portrait is ultimately based on an Italian manuscript from the sixth century.
Once settlement was well established, Vermonters built attractive permanent buildings--houses, churches, and stores-- in the new Federal style.
I am doing a reseach paper in Art History (due by 5/1/00) and I need to know what materials were used as well as how the massive walls and columns were actually structured and put into place.
baluster one of a series of short vertical posts that support a rail and form a balustrade, often forming the roofline of a building as well as the border of a staircase or porch.
Unlike the tenuously allied Greek city-states, Rome became a powerful, well-organized empire that, architecturally no less than culturally and politically, left its mark throughout the Mediterranean world, north-west as far as Britain, ...
Acrylic Paints - Emulsion paints which hold their colour well, are very durable and resistant to oils, fats and grease, and have sufficient resilience to avoid cracking. They are used as fast-drying floor paints and as organic coatings on metals.
These qualities are almost wholly lacking in the churches above named, as well as in the cathedral itself, which partakes of nearly all of their peculiarities.
Coarse stuff - lime putty, well mixed with an aggregate to form a basic lime mortar, usually in the ratio 1:3.
Fundamentalist Islam sees itself as a universal value system which must include the secular as well as religious aspects of life.
Cellini's adventurous life is well known from his remarkable autobiography, written between 1538 and 1562, the standard English edition of which was published in 1960. Like Rosso, he also went to work at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The major architectural periodicals continued publication through the war as well, and they document the change in architectural culture that took place during those years of enforced idleness.
ideal city of the Renaissance, then Rome is the ideal city of the Baroque, in this case privileged by the convergence of ambitious popes and an artist of international repute, Gianlorenzo Bernini, heir to Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael as well as ...
By the 1970s, home buyers began seeking out more historic styles associated with the well-to-do, and demand declined for housing designed in the Eichler style.
Rooted in the rural French countryside, the French Country style includes both modest farmhouse designs as well as estate-like chateaus. At its roots, the style exudes a rustic warmth and comfortable designs.
Dog-leg stair: parallel flights rising alternately in opposite directions, without an open well. Flying stair: cantilevered from the walls of a stairwell, without newels; sometimes called a Geometric stair when the inner edge describes a curve.
Architects emulated colonial houses' plain, shingled surfaces as well as their massing, whether in the simple gable or in the complex massing which looked almost as if a colonial house had been fancifully expanded over many years.
Arrow headed bastion: A bastion which was used in fortifications to provide flanking as well as covering fire while presenting the enemy with the smallest target possible by the virtue of its shape.
The most versatile and well manipulated material for constructing columns is wood. Any type of decorative column can be constructed with wood. Your personal favorite wood can be hand-crafted into the finest wall mounting or fireplace layout.
Postmodernism coincides with both the historic preservation movement and the new urbanism movement quite well.
The mission of the sculptor, whose work was seen almost exclusively adorning church buildings, was to educate as well as decorate. He brought Biblical tales and moral lessons to life in stone. Carvings were not just religious, however.
A hardy and adaptable breed, churros were well-suited to the rough and arid frontier regions of northern Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Baja California and Alta California (beginning in the early 1770s).
It opened into a very large rectangular room-the atrium-that had a well, stream, or small pool just inside the entrance.
Others exist in various parts of Greece as well as in Sicily, Southern Italy, Asia Minor, etc, where important Greek communities were early settled.
ViceA stair in a circular well with a central supporting newel. Also called a spiral stair or (Scots) turnpike stair.VillaOriginally a Roman country house or farm.
Westminster : Until 1529 the medieval Palace of Westminster was the chief London residence of the monarch as well as the centre for the legal and administrative business of government.
The Ionic order is based on a set of proportions and includes a particular kind of column base and lintel as well as capital. The order was also used by the Romans.
Lady chapel : Found in all the Notre Dames, as well as many of the Great Cathedrals and churches, the Lady chapel is usually located behind the Sanctuary. These spaces are dedicated to - sometimes set aside for the use of - Mary, the Blessed Virgin.
Emerging in the first half of the 12th century from Romanesque antecedents, Gothic architecture continued well into the 16th century in northern Europe, long after the other arts had embraced the Renaissance.
Doric, like most Greek styles, works well horizontally on buildings, that's why it was so good with the long rectangular buildings made by the Greeks. The area above the column, called the frieze [pronounced "freeze"], had simple patterns.
details of style used in both rural and urban houses and commercial buildings well into 20th century
SECOND EMPIRE c. 1860s to 1880s
mansard roof which permits full use of top floor space and eliminates sloping ceilings of gable roof ...
Cistern - an underground area used to store water. Unlike a well, water does not naturally flow into a cistern from a subterranean source.
Cornice - a ledge-like crown projecting from a wall.
A new building material, stucco, was particularly well suited for Spanish architecture and the closely related Mission and Pueblo styles of the Southwest and West.
Steyned - Lined (like in a well).
Stockade - Solid fence of heavy timbers.
Stringcourse - Continuous horizontal moulding on wallface.
Produced in the early 1900s by such well-known designers as Gustav Stickley and the craftsmen of the Roycroft community in East Aurora, New York.
Some of the well known forms of Japanese structures are: ...
bond - the pattern in which bricks are laid for the sake of solidity as well as design.
brace - a diagonal stabilizing member of a building frame.
Derived from the French chanceries meaning ‘to sing’, a priest would be employed to sing masses for the well being of the founder in his life time, and for his soul after death.
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onion-shaped dome: used in Russian and Islamic architecture and derived from the domes of Byzantine basilicas. As well as being aesthetically pleasing it throws off snow more easily than a conventional dome.
Finish - Various compounds (paint, varnish, stain, oil, and/or wax) applied to the surface of wood or metal to enhance its appearance, as well as to provide protection from the elements and for ease of maintenance.
Acanthus - A Mediterranean plant whose leaves are stylised into decoration for the capitals of Corinthian and Composite order columns as well as friezes and wall panels. See also Greek, Roman and Agraffe.
handwriting designed to be beautiful; calligraphic writing or drawing can be expressive as well as beautiful.
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Two sheets of plate glass formed into a sealed hollow block that comes in a variety of sizes and patterns; is used in bathrooms as well as Modern and Art Deco style homes.
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Grapes and oranges, as well as orchids and other tropical flowers, were among the products of upper-class conservatories. The most elaborate conservatories were warmed by wood- or coal-heated air introduced through under-floor ducts.
Openwork gablet: Gable-shaped motif above portals and windows, often containing tracery decorations as well as pinnacles and finials.
the central post in a circular or winding staircase; also the principal post at each angle of a dog-legged or well staircase.
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congregational mosque, usually a complex that contains various community services, such as a library, offices, classrooms and meeting rooms as well as a main prayer space
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Renaissance - Architectural period deriving from Italy in 1420, until mid - c16, characterised by a return to ancient Roman motifs and humanism as well as technological innovation and professionalism- ...
It developed forms on a regional basis, often of great complexity and beauty, and was used for non-religious buildings as well as for cathedrals, churches, and monasteries.
usually of wood or pressed metal, which appear at the cornice line of a building. They may be incised into a scrolled patten or be more simply molded and are common to all Italinate style buildings, but often appear with other styles as well.
architectural works of art (Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, 7th-century, the Basilica of S. Apollinare Nuovo and S. Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna, 8th-9th century), magnificent mosaics (Ravenna, the cathedral of Monreale in Palermo), as well as ...
Another well-known Chinese structure is the Buddhist temple, which looks like a stacked tower. They were built in the shape of a tetragon from wood, and later built into the shape of an octagon.
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