De architectura, 4.2.1

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De architectura, 4.2.1
Quotation
Quoniam autem de generibus columnarum origines et inventiones supra sunt scriptae, non alienum mihi videtur isdem rationibus de ornamentis eorum, quemadmodum sunt prognata et quibus principiis et originibus inventa, dicere.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element
Object/ Person Ornamented
Columns and, in general, architectural orders
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Architectural Element
Visual Work: Material: Wood
Visual Work: Carving
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief
Medium/a Ornamenting
The ornaments of columns originally made of wood but then of marble. These transpire to be the upper architectural element or spaces: triglyphs (non-figural)
mutules (non-figural)
dentils (non-figural)
metopes (figural sculpture)
cornices (including non-figural features)
pediments (including figural relief sculpture and sculpture in the round)
principals
gables
rafters
eaves
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Architects, craftspeople, and carpenters
Notes
From the wider context of the passage immediately following
Item Identifier
A00194
Determination
Derived directly from text