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ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and trabs, trabem, a beam), an architectural term for the chief beam which carries the superstructure and rests immediately on the columns. In the ordinary entablature it is the lowest of the three divisions, the other two ...

ARCHIVE (Lat. archivum, a transliteration of Gr. frpxtlov, an official building), a term (generally used in the plural " archives "), properly denoting the building in which are kept the records, charters and other papers belonging to any state, community or f

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... ith clay mortar. When between these winged walls there are columns to carry the architrave, so as to form a porch, the latter is said to be in-antis. (See TEMPLE.)

... tercolumniation (q.v.) given to those temples where the columns had only timber architraves to carry.

... arch, and volta, a vault), an architectural term applied to the mouldings of an architrave, when carried round an arched opening.

... arch above it (portico of Pantheon), or introduced in the frieze just above the architrave (San Lorenzo), or by the conversion of the architrave into a flat arch by dividing it into voussoirs, as in the Forum Julium at Rome or in the temple of Jupiter at Baalb ...

... columns in the classic orders (q.v.). It usually consists of three members, the architrave (the supporting member carried from column to column, pier or wall) ; the frieze (the decorative member) ; and the cornice (the projecting and protective member). Someti ...

EPISTYLE (Gr. m, upon, and <rrv\ot, column), the Greek architectural term for architrave, the lower member of the entablature of the classic orders (q.v.).

... ned with flowers on festive occasions, in a sort of shrine in the centre of the architrave of the stable. In art she is generally represented seated, with her hand on the head of the accompanying horse or animal. See Tertullian, Apol. 16; Juvenal viii. 157; Pr ...

... s, and this shows how the early builders used wood with its possibility of long architrave beams rather than stone as in Greece. The interior arrangements of the temple also varied from the Grecian models, for owing to the fact that the gods of Etruria were of ...

... llet), the term in architecture given to the projecting fillet which crowns the architrave of the Greek Doric order.

... (not the present one) built in a severely formal style, with Doric pillars and architraves, standing solitarily in a typical Russian landscape. The Tolstoy family, to whom it had belonged for several generations, was originally of German extraction, and had s ...

... t 4 ft. above the nave and is separated from it by a marble rood-screen, on the architrave of which stand fourteen figures, the signed work of Jacobello and Pietro Paolo delle Masegne, 1394. The Pala d'oro, or retable of the high altar, is one of the chief glo ...