De architectura, 4.2.1
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Literature: prose See all items with this value
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1st century BCE See all items with this value
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Vitruvius See all items with this value
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De architectura, 4.2.1
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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.
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Noun (plural) See all items with this value
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Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
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Columns and, in general, architectural orders
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Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Material: Wood See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Carving See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue See all items with this value
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Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value
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The ornaments of columns originally made of wood but then of marble.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)
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mutules (non-figural)
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dentils (non-figural)
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metopes (figural sculpture)
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cornices (including non-figural features)
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pediments (including figural relief sculpture and sculpture in the round)
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principals
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gables
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rafters
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eaves
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Architects, craftspeople, and carpenters
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From the wider context of the passage immediately following
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A00194
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