architrave

Examples of architrave in the following topics:

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • Doric entablatures consist of three parts: the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice.
  • The architrave is composed of stone lintels that span the space between columns.
  • The triglyphs have three vertical grooves, similar to columnar fluting, and below them are guttae, small strips that appear to connect the triglyps to the architrave below.
  • Although most architectural elements of the Parthenon belong to the Doric Order, a continuous sculptured frieze in low relief that sits above the architrave belongs to the Ionic style.
  • The architrave is not always decorated, but more often it rises in three outwardly-stepped bands.

• 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.