ENTABLATURE

ĕntăbˈləchoor, the entire unit of horizontal members above the columns or pilasters in classical architecture—Greek, Roman or Renaissance. The height of the entablature in relation to the column supporting it varies with the three orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, but in Roman and Renaissance interpretations it is generally about one fourth the column height. The entablature's component members are the architrave, which rests directly upon the abacus, or top member of the column cap; the frieze; and the cornice, or topmost member. Essentially the entablature is a development from the primitive lintel, which spans two posts and supports the ends of the roof rafters. In Renaissance and modern designs the entablature is also used upon a wall as the crowning member or as a horizontal band, irrespective of columns.

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books on: Entablature  - 682 results

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Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
Book by Frank Sear; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Archaeology--Rome, Rome--Antiquities--Catalogs, Theaters--Rome
...width) Theatre Podium/col./entablature Height lower Podium/col./entablature Height middle Podium/col./entablature Height upper Arausio 7.02...of the podia, columns, and entablatures deviate somewhat from the Vitruvian...
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Hints on Public Architecture: Containing, among Other Illustrations, Views and Plans of the Smithsonian Institution : Together with an Appendix Relative to Building Materials
Book by Robert Dale Owen; DaCapo Press, 1978
Subjects: Public Buildings--Washington (D.C.), Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.), Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, Structures, Etc
cut up this entablature into shreds and patches; to mount...entrance, the Grecian column and entablature are introduced within an arch with...Washington. columns, indeed, bearing the entablature, but the entablature supporting nothing...
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
Book by Leland M. Roth; Westview Press, 1993
Subjects: Architecture, Architecture--History
...three basic parts--base, shaft, and entablature--and rises from the three-stepped...size of its component parts and of the entablature are all proportional derivatives of...tall as the diameter, and the Doric entablature the stylized system of beams and beam...
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High Romanesque Sculpture in the Duchy of Aquitaine, C. 1090-1140
Book by Anat Tcherikover; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Sculpture, French--France--Aquitaine, Sculpture, Romanesque--France--Aquitaine
...facade, is surmounted by a substantial entablature which screens off the dome behind it...towers, and spoiling the effect of the entablature. Pre-restoration photographs Pl...arches and the horizontal accent of the entablature, which is what gave it the often...
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Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors
Book by Barbara Burrell; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Ancient--Turkey, Emperor Worship--Rome, Greeks--Turkey--History--To 1500
...least eight-columned, and with an entablature that sloped out as it went up, form...Corinthian, a) temple with out- sloping entablature on three-step podium (in pe- diment...Eight-column temple with outsloping entablature on four-step podium, in the pediment...
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journal articles on: Entablature  - 42 results

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Portal of Empire and Wealth: Jacopo Sansovino's Entrance to the Venetian Mint
Journal article by Eugene J. Johnson; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Historic buildings & sites, Sansovino, Jacopo, Sculpture
...images of each other-support a Doric entablature and frame the rusticated, round-arched...portal reveals that the herms and their entablature are a later addition to the rusticated...were put in place. The bottom of the entablature also had to be cut to suit the existing...
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The Public Commemorative Monument: Mino Da Fiesole's Tombs in the Florentine Badia
Journal article by Shelley E. Zuraw; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art criticism, Bruni, Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino) (1370?-1444), Cemeteries, Church buildings, Giugni, Bernardo, Hugo, Count of Tuscany, Marsuppini, Carlo, Mino da Fiesole (1430-84), Visual artists
...articulation of pilaster, capital, entablature, and cornice. Often the details are...peculiar, even bizarre variations. The entablature is defined by a pattern of miniature...divided into two parts by the ponderous entablature that separates the lunette from the...
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Piranesi, Juvarra, and the Triumphal Bridge Tradition
Journal article by David R. Marshall; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Art history, Renaissance period
...or columns, and an entablature but no roof.88 The...columns with projecting entablatures (in contrast to the pilasters with shallow entablature projections of the side...of the cella to the entablature of the colonnade (or...
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"Begin to Grow Rude and Clamorous": English Politics and the Battle over Church Architecture, 1714-1760
Journal article by R. Barry Levis; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Architecture, Church & state, Church buildings, European history, Politics, United Kingdom
...the first plans with a compleat Dorick entablature. . . ."79 Later Robinson expanded...scheme he shewd me for finishing the entablature of the colonnade, his proposing to...any other ornament upon the top of the Entablature as the Temple of Trivoli c. Bramante...
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Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostension of a Dynastic Relic
Journal article by John Beldon Scott; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Architecture, Art history, Church buildings, Exhibits, Guarini, Guarino (1624-83), Historic artifacts
...foreground columns visually connect across space with the entablature of the pendentive zone of the chapel. As seen in the plan...for the towering pyramid of forms. The heavy arc of the entablature, separating pendentive zone and cupola drum, connects the...
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Ducking and Diving like a Seal, Sutherland Lyall Navigates the Waters of the Web
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, November 2003
...awards at http://www.entablature.com/awards.htm. Following...is pleasing to see that Entablature awarded this site its gold...experiential. The source Entablatures own website is at www.entablature.com and subtitled A Gathering...
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Learning in New Delhi: This Is the First Major Addition to New Delhi's Symbolic Capitol since Independence. It Resonates with the Past at Many Levels, and Suggests New Approaches to Monumentality
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 212, October 2002
...which a giant order rises from a plinth to support a huge entablature and attic. The circular plan is a symbol of the desire to...distance, coherence is retained by a continuous abstracted entablature that ties all the smaller forms together and prepares for...
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Soane Wanted to View Himself as a Teacher as Well as a Practitioner
Magazine article by Joseph Rykwert; The Architectural Review, Vol. 226, November 2009
Subjects: Drawing--Exhibitions, Engineering models--Exhibitions, Royal Academy of Arts (London, England)--Exhibitions, Sir John Soane's Museum (London, England)--Exhibitions, Soane, John, Sir--Speeches, lectures and essays, Watercolor painting--Exhibitions
...orders consist of a post and beam. The post has a base and a shaft crowned by a capital which joins to the topping called entablature. This also is in three layers; the beams proper that span between the columns, the transverse rafters that rested on them...
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Experimental Community
Magazine article by Peter Blundell Jones; The Architectural Review, Vol. 203, April 1998
Subjects: Architectural firms--Contracts, Dwellings--Design and construction, Gelsenkirchen, Germany--Housing, Szyszkowitz-Kowalski--Contracts
...the central space give it much stronger definition, looking almost like a series of giant order columns supporting a thin entablature. The site plan provides a rich mix of spaces from the definitively urban on one side through the central garden-like treatment...
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Crossing the Threshold: Towards a Philosophy of the Interior
Magazine article by Mark Kingwell; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 113, Spring 2006
Subjects: Sensory thresholds--Analysis, Threshold (Perception)--Analysis
...may at first appear, a rejection of the citys legal, rational authority (embodied by the soaring classical columns and entablature of the citys architecture), but, instead, an affirmation of the city in legitimate form. Here, going beyond the boundary...
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Publicans Make Move to Start Racing Days
Newspaper article; The Queensland Times (Ipswich, Australia), May 21, 2011
...appearance. They were each 54ft long and 27ft wide; the front being cement on brick with Corinthian caps supporting a Corinthian entablature. The windows were large sheets of plate glass 12ft x 4ft. The buildings were receiving the last touch from the painters...
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With a Touch of European Grandeur in the Welsh Mountains, It Was Home to Operatic Star and Her Splendid Theatre; UP FOR SALE - CASTLE THAT PLAYED HOST TO THE ELITE
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 5, 2011
Subjects: Patti, Adelina
...opera house is in "good condition", but parts of the castle need restoring. Surviving decorative features include an entablature above the opera houses impressive columns detailing the places where Patti sang around the world and her favourite musicians...
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What Has the Prince Given Architecture? the Prince of Wales May No Longer Be the Most Influential Voice in British Building Design but His Latest Intervention over Chelsea Barracks Is to Be Feared for a Different Reason
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 21, 2009
...century use of cantilevered concrete it is a descendant of the porticoed temples that the Romans built, with columns and entablature translated into modern form. It also creates, with the L-shaped Nash buildings to its side, three sides of a square...
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PERSPECTIVE: Landing in Syria's Trouble; the Middle East May Not Be Everyone's Number One Choice of Holiday Destination at the Moment but That Didn't Stop Post Columnist Chris Upton - Although the Local Police Nearly Did
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 20, 2006
Subjects: Archaeology
...seemed to be heading. Hopefully I would be wearing down his inquisitiveness with views of Corinthian columns, Greco-Roman entablature and Palmyrene statuary. This has always worked on my students, after all. Then he stopped and beckoned me to the desk...
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Crowning Glory; There Aren't Many Properties That Can Boast an Interior Bought and Paid for for by Royalty, the Saloon in Westwood House However, Is One Such Apartment, Writes Alison Jones
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 24, 2009
...mantelpiece is Elizabethan while the mantel above it is from the Restoration period. Running round the entire saloon is a plaster entablature, the lower sections of which - the architrave and frieze - are Elizabethan, while the cornicing that completes it and which...
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encyclopedia articles on: Entablature  - 12 results

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Entablature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ENTABLATURE entab l choor, the entire...Renaissance. The height of the entablature in relation to the column...the column height. The entablatures component members are...member. Essentially the entablature is a development from...
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Doric Order
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the echinus, and a square slab or abacus at the top. The entablature, which is generally about one third the column height...a simpler base and was unfluted, while both capital and entablature were without adornments. For the other Greek orders see...
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Orders of Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its base, shaft, and capital and the supported part or entablature , consisting of architrave, frieze, and cornice. Each...proportions and as to the detail of its different parts. The entablature height is generally about one quarter that of the column...
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Cornice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the uppermost of the three principal members of the classic entablature , hence by extension any similar crowning and projecting...Renaissance and later periods. As an element in the classical entablature the cornice is composed of the cymatium, or crown molding...
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Architrave
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARCHITRAVE ar kitrav, in architecture, principal beam and lowest member of the classical entablature, the other main members of which are the frieze and the cornice . Its position is directly above the columns, and it extends...
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