Explore: Entablatures

bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided

elevations" building proportion and scale, Classical columns, highly stylized entablatures and colonnades. The style was used primarily for high-profile cultural

of a semicircular arch. They have four couples of Tuscan columns and entablatures with classic decorations that divide the two bodies at the same time

the simplest of the orders, though still with complex details in the entablature above. The Greek Doric column was fluted, and had no base, dropping straight

style has distinctive capitals at the top of columns and horizontal entablatures which it supports, while the rest of the building does not in itself

not present columns and entablatures. A striking feature is his rusticated frieze resting upon a perfectly plain entablature Examples of the use of the

non-classic way. Tall corinthian columns stand on plinths and bear the main entablatures; these define the main framework of two storeys and the tripartite bay

reinvention of older ideas. The portico contains entablatures and a flat, coffered ceiling. The entablatures rest on columns set at the front of each bay

porch with two porphyry columns and richly carved capitals, bases and entablatures. The Baptistery was subject to an elaborate restoration during the pontificate

with ornament in the forms of pediments, arcades, shallow pilasters and entablatures from the Italian Renaissance. In England, the Renaissance tended to manifest