De architectura, 5.1.10

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose See all items with this value
Century Range
1st century BCE See all items with this value
Location of Display
Rome See all items with this value
Author
Vitruvius See all items with this value
Reference
De architectura, 5.1.10
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
Item sublata epistyliorum ornamenta et pluteorum columnarumque superiorum distributio operosam detrahit molestiam sumptusque inminuit ex magna parte summam.
Part of Speech
Noun (plural) See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
Entablatures
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Architectural Element See all items with this value
Visual Work: Sculpture See all items with this value
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
The ornaments of entablatures: their architraves
frieze (figural relief sculpture) or metopes (figural) and triglyphs (non-figural)
cornice, and their subsidiary carved element or spaces
Item Identifier
A00197
Determination
Derived directly from text
Item sets
Vitruvius
1st century BCE
Architecture (Ornamented)
Sculpture (Ornamenting)
Architectural Element
Architecture (Ornamenting)
Architectural Element
Relief
Relief- Ornamenting - Definite