Facade

Facade
In architecture, the front exterior of a building or other exterior sides when they are emphasized.
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Facades: A Mixed-Media Photographic Installation About Memory and Place
(Illustration)
Facade I. Photo on Aluminium. 100 x 128cm.

Facade
face of a building, usually the main face.
Finial
the ornamental termination of part of a building such as a spire or pediment.
Flamboyant
the last phase of French Gothic architecture, from c.

facade In architecture, a term used to refer to the front exterior of a building. Also, other exterior sides when they are emphasized.

Side facade of the nave
Cloister: Violence, the Temptation of Man PAUL SIGNAC Still Life with a Book and Oranges
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South facade of the 1931 Poelzig Building at Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.

screen facade: A facade which is so highly decorated with sculpture or other decorative elements that it acts as a screen placed in front of the facade. It may seem to hide the face of the building from view.

Francisco Araujo,
facade of Our Lady of the Rosary, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 18th century.
Diego de Aguirre, facade of St Augustine, Lima, Peru.
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The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ... This article is an overview of the history of art worldwide. ...

Baroque facades of peasant houses (Houses in Szentendre with Crucifix, 1937), Serbian icons and self-portraits (Self-Portrait with Icon, 1936) appear in his delicate charcoal-drawings.

The project for the Julius Tomb required architectural planning, but Michelangelo's activity as an architect only began in earnest in 1519, with the plan for the facade (never executed) of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, ...

Siena, where most of the works on this tour were painted, is dominated even today by its cathedral, a dazzling facade of dark and light stone.

To the right, below the temple to Minerve, whose facade in marble of various colours is so similar to buildings designed by Alberti, Empress Helena and her retinue stand around the stretcher where the dead youth lies; suddenly, ...

Pictured Here: Macellum: Facade. The Pompeii Forum Project - Be sure to open this image in a new window for the enlarged view of this archival photograph.

Bernard de Soissons (French, 13th century), the Rose Window on the front facade of Notre Dame de Reims, exterior view. The cathedral was begun in 1210, added to and modified during many periods since. See a view of the entire front facade.

Bauhaus buildings characteristically have flat roofs, smooth facades, and cubic shapes. The colors preferred were white, gray, beige, and black. The buildings' floor plans are usually open in design and the furniture is functional.

Except floors and walls, artists decorate vaults and facades of temples and palaces. They use pieces of marble, natural stones, colored glass, even gold and silver.

pavilion An articulated portion of the facade of a building, often higher than, or projecting forward from, the rest. If it is in the center, it is called a frontispiece.

Then, in the stone and stained-glass facades of Gothic cathedrals and the egg-tempera icons of the Byzantines, a new Visionary trend emerged in Christian art - rich in its symbolic translation of the Holy Writ.

Frieze: wide flat band encircling part or all of a building facade or part of an interior or exterior wall, often decorated with relief carvings or ornamentation ...

Is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of Italian design, which is often a gallery or corridor generally on the ground level, or sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, ...

Rose window: A large, circular window with stained glass and stone tracery, frequently used on facades and at the ends of transepts on Gothic churches.

In the middle of the square rises a statue of Dante draped in a long cloak. The autumn sun, warm and unloving, lit the statue and the church facade. Then I had the strange impression that I was looking at these things for the first time.

The Bell-tower's unique facade consists of three distinctive colors of local Italian marbles. The tower has a solid square foundation with sturdy angular, octagonal fashioned pillars running the length of the building.

In Florence Castagno painted portraits of citizens that were hanged after the Battle of Anghiari - these portraits were painted on the facade of the Palazzo del Podesta; this gained him the nickname Andrea degli Impiccati.

The western facade of the cathedral of Crema, the communal buildings of Piacenza, and S. Maria delle Grazie in Milan are all striking examples of the extreme splendour of effect that can be obtained by terracotta work.

The austere forms of De Stijl were well suited to the geometric structures favored by the International Modernist movement, while the primary colors favored by the painters could be used as decorative elements to articulate an otherwise plain facade.

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