In those Continental contexts where Rococo is fully in control, sportive, fantastic, and sculptured forms are expressed with abstract ornament using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in asymmetrical sweeps and flourishes and broken curves ; intimate Rococo interiors suppress architectonic divisions of architrave, frieze, and cornice for the picturesque, the curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco ( as in the work of the Wessobrunner School ).

Post and lintel, or in contemporary usage Post and beam, is a simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts.

The endmost triglyph is centered over the column rather than occupying the corner of the architrave.

There is a full architrave under a dentilled cornice.

Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon the architrave (' main beam ') and is capped by the moldings of the cornice.

The entablature, with the exception of the architrave, is continued along the rest of the front ; the frieze, however, is not decorated over the portico.

The architrave is inscribed: MANUEL ESTRADA CABRERA PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA A LA JUVENTUD ESTUDIOSA (" Manuel Estrada Cabrera, President of the Republic, to the Studious Youths ").

In case of the Baalbek architrave blocks, which weigh between 55 and 60 tons, eight extant holes suggest an allowance of 7. 5 ton per lewis iron, that is per capstan.

Michelangelo revised the central window in 1541, adding an architrave to give a central focus to the facade, above which is the largest papal stemma, or coat-of-arms with papal tiara, Rome had ever seen.

As such it is part of the standard classical decorative vocabulary, adopted from architrave and cornice moldings of the Ionic order and Corinthian order.

Geison ( Greek: γεῖσον ) is a specialist's architectural term, denoting the part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order and from the top of the frieze course ( or sometimes architrave ) of the Ionic and Corinthian orders: thus it is simply an equivalent of cornice.

Above the columns, the architrave is divided by two recessed rows of petrified water drips into three levels with ratios of 1: 2: 3.

On the architrave joining the pillar there is the inscription Forte est vinum fortior est rex fortiores sunt mulieres super omnia vincit veritas: " Wine is strong, a king is stronger, women are stronger still, but truth conquers all " ( 1 Esdras, chapters 3 & 4 ).

It is an impressive building with a late-Gothic lattice-worked architrave running along the building.

The architrave, the lowest band, is split, from bottom to top, into the guttae, the regulae, and the taenia.

A dedication is carved on the architrave of the building facing the old Roman road, which reads:

The walls incorporated a system of gates, including the Porta Saracena which is covered by a large monolithic architrave.

An architrave (; from, also called an epistyle ; from Greek επίστυλο, epistylo or door frame ) is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns.

The word architrave is also used to refer more generally to the mouldings ( or other elements ) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.

In classical entablature, it is the lowest part of the entablature consisting of architrave, frieze and cornice.

It consists of two arches, columns, a plain architrave and a decorated frieze.

The architrave of the larger, known as Porta Maggiore, measures about 5 m in length, 1. 5 m in height, 1. 8 m in thickness ; while that of the smaller is decorated with three phalli in relief.

The entrance portal to the tumulus was richly decorated: half-columns in green limestone with zig-zag motifs on the shaft, a frieze with rosettes above the architrave of the door, and spiral decoration in bands of red marble that closed the triangular aperture above an architrave.

Other churches are those of the Annunziata ( 13th century, with a decorated architrave over the portal by a Master Andrew of Priverno ), San Domenico ( erected in the first decades of the 13th century, and enlarged in 1298 ) and San Francesco ( 1222 ), which follows the Gothic Cistercian style of the Abbey of Fossanova.

The triglyphs are decoratively grooved with three vertical grooves (" tri-glyph ") and represent the original wooden end-beams, which rest on the plain architrave that occupies the lower half of the entablature.

The door's architrave was adorned with a marble plaque at the centre and topped by a broken rounded pediment.

This temple has an architrave with a long dedicatory text bearing Hatshepsut's famous denunciation of the Hyksos that has been translated by James P. Allen.

Its granite west doorway with an architrave, has inclined jambs and a massive lintel.

The entablature resting on the columns has three parts: a plain architrave divided into two, or more generally three, bands, with a frieze resting on it that may be richly sculptural, and a cornice built up with dentils ( like the closely spaced ends of joists ), with a corona (" crown ") and cyma (" ogee ") molding to support the projecting roof.

Some columns have inlays with golden and coloured-glass mosaics ; the same decoration can be seen on the architrave and the inner frame of the cloister.

In 1994 the historian Dan Cruickshank discovered 4, 000 tons, or about 60 %, of the arch's stones buried in the bed of the River Lea in the East End of London, including the architrave stones with the gilded EUSTON lettering.

In the Achaemenid Persian capital the brackets are carved with the lion or the griffin projecting right and left to support the architrave ; on their backs they carry other brackets at right angles to support the cross timbers.

The effect of this decoration was to thematically link the entire Doric entablature ( architrave, frieze, and geisa ) with a repeating pattern of vertically and horizontally aligned architectural elements.

The shrine door has door-keepers at each side, leaning on dwarfs with flying figures over the head, with door-keepers and demons on the jamb and architrave.

The upper floor has paired Ionic columns to each bay and a tall window with a pedimented architrave behind a balustraded balcony.

Many words dealing with military ( alarme, cavalier, espion, infanterie, camp, canon, soldat ) and artistic ( especially architectural: arcade, architrave, balcon, corridor ; also literary: sonnet ) practices were borrowed from Italian.

There was a frieze on the architrave ornamented with symbols of victory, several weapons, armour and tritons.

The 8. 72 m high fluted drum-columns, which stood on Anatolian type bases, carried with their Corinthian capitals a three-fascia architrave.

The curved walls forming the entrance courtyard, gatepiers and entrance gates, former stables to the right, and a shouldered stone architrave gateway flanked by vertically halved pilasters with volutes are also Grade I listed buildings.

Figurative decoration on the templon was mainly concentrated on the architrave, initially with carved busts.

On the center of the architrave was a repoussé medallion of Christ.