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Flashcards by Claude Gowan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Claude Gowan
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Abacus | Square slab on top of column |
| Acanthus Leaf | Motif used on Corinthian Columns |
| Acroterion | Ornamentation on the Apex or corners of a Pediment |
| Adyton | Extra room inside the naos |
| Amphiprostlye | Having columns in front of, not between, the antae, on both ends of the temple |
| Anta (Antae) | Wall that juts out to form a porch |
| In antis | Latin: between the antae |
| Architrave | Blank area below frieze and above the columns |
| Arris | Sharp ridge where flutes meet (usually on Doric columns) |
| Capital | Top of a column |
| Cella | Latin: naos (inner room of temple) |
| Coffer | Decorative panel in the ceiling |
| Corinthian | Order of architecture. More elaborate than ionic with leafy capitals |
| Cornice | Top of the entablature just below the pediment |
| Dentil | Latin: little tooth Moulding made of small squares that hang down |
| Dipteral | Having two rows of columns |
| Distyle | Having two columns |
| Doric | Order of architecture; Plain capitals, columns are squat with 20 flutes and no base "Masculine" |
| Drum | One chunk of column |
| Echinus | Rounded pad-like layer at the top of a column below the abacus |
| Engaged | Of a column; when it is attached to the main wall with a small strut or is sunken in |
| Entablature | Entire section above columns, below the pediment |
| Entasis | Bulge of a column |
| Fluting | The grooves going down a column |
| Frieze | A band of decoration |
| Doric frieze | Made up of metopes and triglyphs |
| Ionic (or continuous) frieze | Continuous scene |
| Gable | The triangle formed by the end of the roofline; where the pediment goes |
| Geison | Cornice |
| Raking Geison | Upper edges of the pediment |
| Guttae | Drops below mutules or regulae Latin: drops |
| Hexastyle | Having six columns |
| Ionic | Order of architecture: slender columns with volutes and a base. Generally has 24 flutes with flat area between flutes "Feminine" |
| Metope | Rectangle, often sculpted, on a Doric frieze |
| Mutule | Rectangle block under the cornice of a Doric temple; supposedly represents wooden pegs of earlier ages |
| Octostyle | Having eight Columns |
| Opisthodomos | Rear porch, often used to store treasure |
| Order | Set of loosely-defined style rules for designing a temple; Doric, Ionic or Corinthian |
| Palmette | Decoration that resembles a palm tree |
| Parapet | Low wall |
| Pediment | Sculpture within gable |
| Peripteral | Having columns the whole way round |
| Peristyle | Area around the temple within the columns |
| Pilaster | Similar to engaged column but purely decorational |
| Prostyle | Having columns in front of the antae not between |
| Pronaos | Front porch |
| Regula | Block of moulding below a triglyph |
| Stereobate | Bottom steps of a temple |
| Stylobate | The top step/level on which a column sits |
| Tetrastyle | Having four columns |
| Tholos | Round temple (also called monopteros) |
| Triglyph | Area on Doric temple with vertical grooves |
| Tympanum | The triangular space behind pedimental sculpture |
| Volute | Scroll on top of an Ionic column |
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