elevation

Examples of elevation in the following topics:

• Sculpture

  • In Italy, some sculptures tended towards the Roman Classical styles that elevated sculpture beyond interior design.
  • In Italy, some sculptures tended towards the Roman Classical styles that elevated sculpture beyond interior design.

• Romanticism

  • Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism.
  • Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society.

• Palladio

  • The elevated main floor level became known as the "piano nobile," and is still referred to as the "first floor" in continental Europe.
  • The Palladian villa configuration often consists of a centralized block raised on an elevated podium, accessed by grand steps and flanked by lower service wings.
  • This format, with the quarters of the owner at the elevated center of their own world, found resonance as a prototype for Italian villas and later for the country estates of the British nobility.

• Painting and Architecture

  • In France, Gothic architecture emerged and was characterized by dramatic flying buttresses, lancet archways, an increased use of stain glass, and elevated heights for civic and religious buildings.

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • The nave elevation is composed of three levels: grand arcade, triforium, and clerestory, each marked by a cornice.
  • The three story elevation of Saint-Lazare was made possible by the use of pointed arches for the nave.

• Architecture in the High Renaissance

  • The Palladian villa configuration often consists of a centralized block raised on an elevated podium, accessed by grand steps and flanked by lower service wings.
  • This format, with the quarters of the owner at the elevated center of his own world, found resonance as a prototype for Italian villas and later for the country estates of the British nobility.

• Symbolism

  • Symbolism was largely a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic styles which were attempts to represent reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal.

• Shoin Rooms

  • The tokonoma was an elevated recess built into the wall to create a space for displaying Chinese art, which was popular at the time, at a comfortable eye level.

• The Qin Dynasty

  • Legalism is a philosophy of focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace, and common sense.

• Proportion and Scale

  • Light, shade, wind, elevation, and choice of materials all relate to a standard of architectural proportion.