architrave

(noun)

the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns

Related Terms

  • Obelisk

Examples of architrave in the following topics:

  • Rome

    • Massive buildings soon followed, with great pillars that supported broad arches and domes, rather than dense lines of thin columns suspending flat architraves.
  • Hatshepsut

    • The temple has an architrave with a long dedicatory text bearing Hatshepsut's famous denunciation of the Hyksos, who had led Egypt into a cultural decline prior to her rule.
  • Renaissance Architecture

    • The orders can either be structural, supporting an arcade or architrave, or purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters.
  • Renaissance Architecture in Rome

    • Michelangelo revised the central window in 1541, adding an architrave to give a central focus to the facade, above which is the largest papal stemma, or coat-of-arms with papal tiara, Rome had ever seen.
  • Roman Architecture under the Republic

    • Its original roof and architrave are now lost.
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