History Terms

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Lantern

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Superstructure crowning a roof or dome having open or windowed walls to let in light and air

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Lucarne

Back 2

Dormer window in a roof or spire

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Whispering gallery

Back 3

Space or gallery beneath a dome or vault

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Turret

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Small tower forming part of a larger structure (castle)

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Postern

Back 5

Small rear door or gate to a fort or castle

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Merlon

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One of the solid parts b/w the crenels of a battlement

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Citadel

Back 7

Fortress in a commanding position in or near a city, defense during attack

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Cymatium

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Crowning member of a classical cornice, usually a cyma recta

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Cornice

Back 9

Uppermost member of a classical entablature

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Frieze

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Horizontal part of a classical entablature, b/w cornice and architrave

Decorated with sculpture in low relief

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Architrave

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Resting directly on the column

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Capital

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Upper end of a column

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Base

Back 13

Lowermost portion of a wall, column

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Taenia

Back 14

Raised band or fillet separating the frieze from the architrave

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Regula

Back 15

Fillet beneath the taenia

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Tuscan order

Back 16

Roman origin, unfluted column

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Composite column

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Corinthian order with ionic volutes

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Scotia

Back 18

Deep concave molding b/w two fillets

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Modillion

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Ornamental bracket, usually in the form of acanthus

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Inlay

Back 20

Decorate by setting pcs of wood, ivory at the same level

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Filigree

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Ornamental openwork delicate or intricate design

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Cartouche

Back 22

Surrounded with ornamental scrollwork for receiving a painted or low relief decoration

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Pylon

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Monumental gateway to an ancient Egyptian temple

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Propylon

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Freestanding

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Necropolis

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Historic burial ground

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Menhir

Back 26

Upright megalith, standing alone

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Megalith

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Large stone

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Monolith

Back 28

Single block of stone, form of obelisk or column

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Chromlech

Back 29

Circular arrangement of megaliths

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Trilithon

Back 30

Two upright megaliths supporting a horizontal stone

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Temenos

Back 31

Reserved and enclosed as a sacred place (Greece)

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Prytaneion

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Senate house for elected officials

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Bouleterion

Back 33

Council house, meeting place for officials

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Chimera

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Head of a lion, part goat, with a dragon tail, eagle's wings

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Crosette

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Projection at a corner of a door or window architrave

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Eglomise

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Painting or gilding on the reverse side of glass

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Hacket

Back 37

Triangular forms often in the form of an s scroll used to fill the space when the cresting extends beyond the stiles on the back of wainscot chair

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Certosina

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Small ivory inlay pattern

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Intarsia

Back 39

Inlay of different colored strips of wood on wood

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Incised carving

Back 40

Low relief carving

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Chip carving

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High relief carving

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Pastiglia

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Many layers of gesso

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Pier table

Back 43

Table designed to be placed against a pier or wall

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Yeseria

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Elaborately carved lacelike patterns of plaster in the walls of Moorish rooms

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Chevet

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Rounded east end of a Gothic cathedral including apse and ambulatory

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Mies van der rohe

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Pioneer for skyscrapers

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Walter gropius

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First to use curtain walling

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Louis Sullivan

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Who said "form follows function"

Father of skyscrapers

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Cantharus

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Basin for a ritual cleansing with water in the atrium

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Bema

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Transverse open space separating the nave and apse

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Cloister

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A covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard