A lesene, also called a pilaster strip, is an architectural term for a narrow, low-relief vertical pillar on a wall. It resembles a pilaster, but does...
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Foire du Caire building (Paris) Glossary of architecture Classical order Lesene Post and lintel Smith, Fred; Cartmill, Matt (20 September 2011). The Human...
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solid infill as intentional stylistic elements. Blind arcade Lombard band Lesene A Dictionary of Architecture; Fleming, John; Honour, Hugh & Pevsner, Nikolaus...
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have been suggested as the origin of Lombard bands. Lombard architecture Lesene (low-relief pillars), another Lombardic element Similar-looking structures:...
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including among others: 60 Polish provincial emblems, panelling, mouldings and lesene. On 31 May 1732, a fire broke out in the castle destroying the west elevation...
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substituting NaOH for KOH but otherwise following the synthetic method of Lesene and Henze, as the BCA available from commercial vendors of that time was...
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lattice framework consisting of small strips in a criss-crossed pattern. Lesene A type of pilaster that lacks a base or capital. Light The opening(s) in...
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early defensive function, the bulk of which is a square brick shaft with lesenes, 12 metres (39 ft) wide on each side and 50 metres (160 ft) tall. The belfry...
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the left side. The massive west front is divided into five parts by six lesene (applied strips), each of which is surmounted by a tabernacle housing a...
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divided by squat columns. The most common form of external decoration is lesene strips (thin vertical or horizontal strips of projecting stone), typically...
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decorated with Lombard bands, which are repeated also on the façade. Thin lesenes start from the pillars' centres, reaching the upper frame. The capitals...
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side and arched outwards on the garden side and is slightly divided by lesene strips. Above this rises a 36 metres (118 ft) tall tower-like structure...
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elaborate with three distinct storeys each divided into fields, the lower by lesenes and the middle by columns with decorated capitals. The uppermost part is...
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Saint Peter's consisted in placing a metope, and not a triglyph, over the lesenes. This solution, highly criticized by Guillaume Philandrier [fr] in his...
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clients' coat of arms, there is a double register composed of niches framed by lesene, which contain the statues. Two similar niches are in the cornice of the...
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some medallions. The cylindrical body of the building is subdivided by lesenes and pilasters. After a period of abandon, it was restored and used as a...
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to the south and north on the inner side of the walls, two rectangular lesenes were uncovered. The temple was built of stones joined with lime mortar...
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has been speculated that they might have been on the left pillar and the lesene to the right of the fresco. The fairy-tale landscape, also populated with...
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Romanesque include the marked verticality given by the external use of lesenes and half-columns (often with Corinthian-order capitals, thus repetitions...
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a central part with the main portal, in which paired half-columns and lesenes support a tympanum, and two slightly set back side parts with small portals...
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formed by ashlar lesenes, but they are not identical on each side of the tower. On the west faces there are four niches formed by five lesenes. On the north...
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thanks to the variation of light between the light, smooth areas of the lesene and the dark areas of the openings and grooves of the rustication. At Santa...
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the interior. The segmented walls are divided by the pillars with marble lesenes on all sides. The powerful entablature is highly angulated and turns upwards...
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terminating in a tympanum which rests on an entablature delineated by lesene, contains a central rose window, the glass of which depicts figures of Saint...
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lower and an upper part, while vertically it is tripartite with six giant lesenes of Corinthian order. Three doors open on the facade: the following inscription...
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a square, three-storey tower, the façades of which were relieved with lesenes linked at the top with blind arcades, making it a unique specimen in the...
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disappeared. The columns are mirrored at the bottom through the use of lesenes, and in the three spaces between them are equally elaborate panels with...
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base is set the first octagonal elevation, framed at the corners by rich lesenes of Corinthian order very much projected and ornamented with candelabra...
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pediment with a circular niche in the center, decorated with cross-shaped lesenes, and two symmetrical quadrangular towers. The wooden dome, which burned...
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the Gesù and of St. Ignatius, both located in Rome. The movement of the lesenes, combined with Corinthian capitals, creates a "plastic-pictorial" effect...
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