De architectura, 4.2.2

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De architectura, 4.2.2
Quotation
Ideo, quod antiqui fabri quodam in loco aedificantes, cum ita ab interioribus parietibus ad extremas partes tigna prominentia habuissent conlocata, inter tigna struxerunt supraque coronas et fastigia venustiore specie fabrilibus operibus ornaverunt, tum proiecturas tignorum
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element
Object/ Person Ornamented
Cornices and gables
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Material: Wood
Visual Work: Carving
Medium/a Ornamenting
Carved works in wood - molding, relief and potentially in the round (if fastigia includes 'pediments' as it may)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Earlier craftspeople and carpenters who built in wood rather than stone
Item Identifier
A00195
Determination
Derived directly from text