In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical...
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He was bred and raced by Henry L. Straus and trained by Frank Bonsal. Pilaster was sired by Pilate, a son of the 1916 American Horse of the Year and Belmont...
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Lesene (redirect from Pilaster strip)
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 not have...
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deaths, that of Peter Middleton and Tobias Pilaster, Hugh's father. Edward Pilaster: Son of Joseph Pilaster, head of a wealthy banker family, at high level...
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early 14th-century Italy, it took on an architectural form with column and pilaster decorations. In modern times, a credenza is more often a type of sideboard...
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and rendered on the outside, and is decorated with vertical limestone pilaster strips and strapwork. At the corners of the tower, the walls are strengthened...
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Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2008-01-16. "Fanlight, Pilaster". ushistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. Retrieved 2008-01-16...
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streamlined", while that facing East Street is curved, with long fasces-style pilaster-like features and elements of Classical and, in the capitals, Egyptian...
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near Jelsa, Croatia Cathedral architecture Flying buttress Strainer arch Pilaster Retaining wall "Buttress", www.britannica.com, Encyclopædia Britannica...
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Their design often adopted elements of later Roman architecture such as pilasters, columns, and sculptured discs. After the disintegration of the Carolingian...
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consists of a three-bay nave and a chancel. At the west end is a wide pilaster buttress with round-arched openings carrying a gabled double bellcote....
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flanking Ionic columns and pilasters on either side of the recessed doorway. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which support a plain entablature...
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articulate the wall-spaces of the piers. Column — pillar Compound pier Pilaster Deep foundation Abbett, Robert W. (1957). American Civil Engineering Practice...
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Buttresses are set against the walls but they are small and more like classical pilaster than flying buttress. Presbytery of the church Bell tower Hautecombe Abbey...
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installed atop an interior wall. It is also used atop doors, windows, pilasters and cabinets. Historically made of plaster or wood, modern crown moulding...
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supports, called an "anta capital" when it is structural, or sometimes "pilaster capital" if it is only decorative as often during the Roman period. In...
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of "two orders of columns and pilasters, the first order being Corinthian" and "a third or attic story formed of pilasters and two columns on either side...
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been removed over the centuries – for example, capitals from some of the pilasters are in the British Museum. Two columns were swallowed up in the medieval...
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Plague crosses (Brugherio) (redirect from Devotional pilasters of Brugherio)
45°33′0.87″N 9°17′0.02″E / 45.5502417°N 9.2833389°E / 45.5502417; 9.2833389 There are three plague crosses in Brugherio, in the province of Monza and...
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walls, as in the Heraeum of Olympia (c. 600 BCE). Antae differ from the pilaster, which is purely decorative, and does not have the structural support function...
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centre, a pilaster rises to symbolize, in allegorical terms, the principles expressed in the 1812 constitution. At the foot of this pilaster, there is...
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supports, called an "anta capital" when it is structural, or sometimes "pilaster capital" if it is only decorative as often during the Roman period. In...
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the "Stone Gallery". This attic stage is ornamented with alternating pilasters and rectangular windows which are set just below the cornice, creating...
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purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters. One of the first buildings to use pilasters as an integrated system was in the Old Sacristy...
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a term for "pilaster ornaments featuring acanthus decoration", specifically "running scrolls" that ran vertically up a panel or pilaster, rather than...
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Renaissance Revival and Neoclassical decorations which included columns, pilasters, caryatids, atlases and friezes adopted from Greco-Roman architecture...
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modillions. Indo-Corinthian capitals are capitals crowning columns or pilasters, which can be found in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, and usually...
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is five bays wide, with the central bay projecting forward, as do the pilaster strips at the left and right of the building. The windows are sashes, and...
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of Ashoka, Sanchi Stupa no. 3. Illustration from Sanchi Stupa Limestone Pilaster, 2nd century CE, Amaravathi, Indian Museum, Kolkata. Buddha footprints...
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town in "Jaynestown", an episode of Firefly Canton (building), a corner pilaster Canton (flag), an emblem placed in the top left quarter of a flag Canton...
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