In architecture and the decorative arts, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, whose alleged function was originally...

Mascaron may refer to: Mascaron (architecture), a decorative element in the form of a sculpted face or head of a human being or an animal Jules Mascaron...

Chimera (mythology) Chiwen Darth Vader grotesque Gargoyle Grotesque Mascaron (architecture) Nightmares in the Sky Onigawara Shachihoko Sheela na gig Bridaham...

style characterized by the use of rocaille motifs such as shells, curves, mascarons, arabesques, and other classical elements. The Rococo style abandoned...

(Rome) Baroque corbels with mascarons in the Salon d'Hercule (Palace of Versailles, France) Rococo corbel with a mascaron, on the Hôtel Jeanne d'Albret...

architects and artists include palmettes, vegetal or wave-like scrolls, lion mascarons (mostly on lateral cornices), dentils, acanthus leafs, bucrania, festoons...

In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental...

enamel. Saupique's crocodile Fisherman in boat Saupigue created several mascarons for the exterior of the factory. In 1952 Saupique carried out some sculptural...

unknown architect, sculptor and painter, c.1650 Baroque festoon with a mascaron in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France...

rotundas and lateral pavilions, and had their façades decorated with sculpted mascaron fruit, cascades of trophies and other sculptural decoration. The interiors...

tortoiseshell, and gilt-bronze mounts, Metropolitan Museum of Art Baroque mascaron with acanthuses in the Salon d'Hercule, 1724–1736, designed by Robert de...

Marriage stone A stone lintel, usually carved, with a marriage date. Mascaron A face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, used as a decorative...

Irises and mascaron at the façade of Schichtel building in Strasbourg, France, by Aloys Walter (1905–06) Jugendstil straight-lined mascaron in Riga (1906)...

rinceaux). Human figures were not rare, usually appearing under the form of mascarons (literally face-shaped ornaments) at the top of windows, doors or in cartouches...

mask from Casa de Arizón near Cádiz, Spain (17th–18th century) Grotesque mascaron in courtyard of the Broletto (the old Province Hall), Brescia, Italy (17th...

like small cathedrals, decorated with columns, frontons, cartouches, mascarons, and carved angels and chimeras. They were usually constructed of walnut...

cornucopias, mascarons, Ancient urns, tripods, perfume burners, dolphins, ram and lion heads, chimeras, and gryphons. Greco-Roman architectural motifs are...

Archaeological Museum, Athens Etruscan palmettes on an antefix with a mascaron of Silenus, 4th century BC, ceramic, Neues Museum, Berlin Ancient Greek...

sculptor, c.1930 Art Deco reinterpretation of the egg-and-dart (above the mascaron and under the dentils) in the Reims Opera House, Reims, France, by François...

Revett in 1794 Roman pediment of the Arch of Augustus, Rimini, 27 BC Roman mascaron with rinceaux in a segmental pediment of the Library of Celsus, Ephesus...

Paris. The mascarons remained in place until 1851–1854, when the bridge was completely rebuilt. At that time six of the original mascarons from the 16th...

stonework. Alternating male and female mascarons decorate keystones on the San Francisco City Hall Beaux-Arts architecture depended on sculptural decoration...

dancers, nude and draped women, figures of antique chariots, winged putti, mascarons of Apollo, Hermes and the Gorgon, swans, lions, the heads of oxen, horses...

decorative architectural ornaments, where they are a form of mascaron or ornamental head, Green Men are frequently found in architectural sculpture on...

National Archaeological Museum, Athens Sumerian volutes at the end of a bull mascaron of the queen's lyre, one of the Lyres of Ur, 2600 BC, wood, lapis lazuli...

Margent Marine architecture Marriage stone Marsh castle Martello tower Martyrium Māru-Gurjara architecture Mas (Provençal farmhouse) Mascaron Mashrabiya Masia...

designed by Andrea Palladio, 1566-1590s Neoclassical acroteria with mascarons on the Grave of Lupin-Roux family, Loyasse Cemetery, Lyon, sculpted by...

Doric frieze with circular motifs in the metopes that alternate with mascarons, in the Marble Saloon of the Stowe House, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK,...

architect, 13th century Renaissance Composite pilaster capital with a gorgon mascaron, by a Florentine pupil of Verrocchio active in Rome, perhaps Michele Marini...

period and may have been a satellite or colony of Palenque based on architectural similarities between the two. The city was a center of the Chontal Maya...