How To Use modillion In A Sentence
- The modillion was a bracket, a horizontal version of the ancones which supported the cornice of the Greek doorway cornice.
- The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
- The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
- The Wikipedia entry on the subject's fascinating in the extreme: * Decorative stone features of Greek temples such as mutules, guttae, and modillions that are derived from true structural/functional features of the early wooden temples Boing Boing
- The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
- Albert Sherwood built this house with its distinctive modillion cornice on land he bought in 1913. Undefined
- without the cap breadth of the modillion 2 & frac38; Letters to and from Jefferson, 1825
- While the Greeks had used the Corinthian capital with an Ionic entablature, the Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
- The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
- A heavy cornice with dentils and modillions and a boxlike parapet with a decorative panel at the center crown the facade.
