Cyclopedia of Architecture: The orders. Pen and ink renderingAmer. tech. soc., 1909 |
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abacus angle arch Architect architrave ASTOR Athens base bed-mould building carved circular Classic colonnade column shafts construction Corinthian capital Corinthian Order corner cornice crowning curve cyma decorated detail diameters high doorway Doric column drawing echinus employed entablature entasis Epidauros Erechtheum examples face fillet fluted folding plates frieze Greek architecture Greek Doric Greek Doric Order Greek Orders Greek temples illustrated intercolumniation Ionic capital lintel method metope Minerva Polias module Monument of Lysicrates moulding mutule neck one-half ornament outline Pantheon Parthenon pedestal pediment Phigalia pier pilaster placed plain porch Portfolio Plate portico portion projecting proportions Propylæa refinement Renaissance rendering reproduction at small Roman architecture Roman Corinthian Roman Doric Order Roman Order Rome roof shown in Fig shown in Plate soffit space structure student stylobate Temple of Apollo Temple of Minerva Temple of Vesta Theater of Marcellus treatment triglyph Vignola volute wall
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Page 265 - Letters and Lettering," a larger treatise published by the Bates and Guild Company of Boston, from which several of the illustrations reproduced in this pamphlet have been borrowed, contains more material in an easily available form than any other textbook on the subject. EXAMINATION PLATES. In addition to the following Examination Plates the student is expected to make careful reproductions of the lettering in this Instruction Paper.
Page 161 - ... capitals and small letters. The date, the student's name and address, and the plate number should be lettered on each plate in one-line letters, such as are used in the title of Fig.
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Page 293 - Denoting a portico in which the columns stand out entirely in front of the walls of the building to which it is attached; also denoting a temple or other structure having columns in front only, but across the whole front. (See Plate XXXIII.) Pseudo-dipteral (su-do-dip'te-ral). The term applied to a temple falsely or imperfectly dipteral, the inner range of columns surrounding the cella being omitted. (See Fig. 33.) Pteroma (te-ro'ma). The space between the wall of the cella of a Classical temple...
Page 282 - The edge or lower part of a roof projecting beyond the surface of the wall to throw off water. (See Fig. 59.) Eccentric (ek-sen'trik). Not having the same center; referring to circles. which, though related, are not struck from the same center. Echinus (e-kl'nus). (a) Properly the egg-and-dart ornament cut or painted on the quarter-round moulding that occurs in column capitals. (6) The convex projecting moulding — of eccentric curve in section in Greek examples — supporting the abacus of the...
Page 288 - The apparent vanishing of parallel lines as their distance from the eye is increased. Phidias (fid'i-as). A celebrated Greek sculptor born about 500 BC; died about 430 BC He was associated with Pericles in the artistic beautifying of Athens. His greatest work was the colossal gold and ivory statue of Athene (Minerva) which adorned the cella of the Parthenon. Phigalia (fi-ga'li-a).
Page 161 - ... road toward a mastery of architecture. EXAMINATION PLATES In addition to the following Examination Plates, the student is expected to make such sketches or drawings of the different parts of the Order, from the descriptions and references in the text, as will enable him to understand thoroughly the different parts and their general forms and proportions. The following plates are to be drawn out to the required sizes, as indicated in the following section. The plates should be carefully and thoroughly...