10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZOOPHORUS»
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Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
entablature showing location of zoophorus zophorus Same as zoophorus.
zOsaku Fixtures and fittings of a traditional Japanese structure; includes the floor,
ceiling, etc., but not the structural members. zotheca 1. In Near Eastern
architecture ...
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
119o io'. ZOOMINERALIA, a word used by some writers to express certain
substances which are of animal origin, yet have somewhat of the nature of stones
, as pearls. ZOOPHORIC COLUMN. See COLUMN. ZOOPHORUS, or
ZOPHORUS, in ...
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A Dictionary of Terms in Art. Edited and illustrated by F. W. F.
ZOOPHORUS. (Gr.) The term for the frieze in classic architecture, from grow, an
animal; WW; to bear, because it was generally adorned with such figures. For the
same reason. the Greeks sometimes termed the zodiac zoophorus, because of ...
Frederick William FAIRHOLT, 1870
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An Historical Inquiry Into the True Principles of Beauty in ...
An Ionic one, however, is more difficult, for without its zoophorus it is cold and
imperfect ; and there is a want of completeness about it that to me is singularly
painful. There is not, however, so far as I know, one man capable even of
conceiving ...
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American Architect and Architecture
The Ionic Frieze was introduced in order to afford a place for sculpture, and was
called by the Greeks the Zoophorus, or Figure-bearer. The typical Ionic base is
considered to consist mainly of a Scotia, as in some Greek examples. It is
common ...
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A classical and archaeological dictionary of the manners, ...
Zoophorus, (from £wov an animal, and (ptpcvto bear,) in ancient architecture, the
same with the frieze in modern times. It was thus called in Greek, because
anciently adorned with the tigures of animals. The Greeks sometimes also call
the ...
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The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design
Mark Hinchman. zabuton / zoophorus on ... Relating to the form and proportion Of
animals. Designed elements that use the images of ani— mals or animal parts.
zoophorus A sculptured FRIEZE that combines animal and human figures.
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e-Study Guide for: Analysing Architecture
Villa rustica b. Villa c. Zoophorus d. Baroque 2. The Visual arts are art forms that
create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics,drawing,
painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, modern Visual arts, design
andcrafts.
Cram101 Textbook Reviews, 2012
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The Buddhist stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the ...
... and is now in the British Museum.3 It is hard to say where these small pillars
were arranged, unless it were on the stupa itself. The top of this inner rail was
crowned with a zoophorus or frieze about 15 inches deep, elaborately carved in ...
The facing comprised six members, besides the plain socle—an ogee plinth, with
romided torus closely superimposed by a zoophorus exhibiting single profile
lions in panels between pilasters of the branching capital kind. This is separated
...
Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva, 1904
