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frieze and first
Later the cleaning and restoration were ordered, first of the older part of the frieze, finally of the canopy.
The first preliminary was inspecting the unfinished length of frieze, a jumble of roughcast and finish coats, all in bad condition.
The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
In fifth-century Athens, Pandora made a prominent appearance in what, at first, appears an unexpected context, in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the Athena Parthenos, the culminating experience on the Acropolis.
The term was first used in the West in Italian, where rabeschi was used in the 16th century as a term for " pilaster ornaments featuring acanthus decoration, specifically " running scrolls " that ran vertically up a panel or pilaster, rather than horizontally along a frieze.
The frieze was composed of twelve murals depicting the influence of sea power on America, beginning with the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 when sea power first reached America and carrying through World War I.
Immediately below the ceiling runs a frieze with portraits of the first 76 doges ( the portraits of the others are to be found in the Scrutinio Room ); commissioned from Tintoretto, most of these paintings are in fact the work of his son.
When first constructed, the building was four storeys tall with a decorative frieze cornice surrounding its exterior.
The gallery on the first floor features two carved stone chimney pieces and a ceiling and frieze of Elizabethan plaster-work.
In the central hall, the frieze between the ground and first floor is adorned with the words of psalm 107: " They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters these see the works of the Lord and his wonders of the deep.
Thus visitors in antiquity first saw the frieze on the eastern face of the altar, on which the chief Greek gods were portrayed.
The base of the tower and the first two stages are Saxon with four doorways, the top of the tower is 15th century as are the clerestory, the nave battlements, the north doorway and porch, the middle arch of the arcade, the west window with busts of a king and queen and the east window with a leaf frieze The tower is the earliest part of the church, preserved in the middle despite restricting views of the chancel from the nave here, is the current site of the altar.
It is appropriate to its Classical purpose, as one of the outer walls is decorated by a mock-Classical frieze ; also, its creators say that the entrance is based upon the Doric Temple of Apollo at Bassae, first excavated by Charles Robert Cockerell, the man who designed the Ashmolean Museum.
Family motifs, engraved into Italian marble chimneypieces and adorning the plaster frieze of the Entrance Hall, reflect the first Earl's pride in his ancestral heritage.
The first third of the west frieze is not part of the procession but instead seems to be the preparatory stages for the participants.
As the files converge on the east frieze we encounter the first women celebrants E2 – 27, E50 – 51, E53 – 63.

frieze and story
The column itself has a helical frieze that tells the story of the Dacian wars.
Standing equally apart from other survivals is a late slab from the Old Minster, Winchester which appears to show a section of a large frieze with the story from Germanic mythology of Sigmund, which it has been suggested may have been as long as eighty feet wide, and over four feet high.

frieze and is
One had to manage the given subjects, three diverse recent events, so as to make them part of a classical frieze, -- that is, a pattern of large figures filling the space, with not much else, against a blank background.
Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.
The church is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles with three apses decorated by a frieze.
The frieze of the Doric entablature is divided into triglyphs and metopes.
There is also a frieze by Adolph Weinman depicting the " great lawgivers of history ", including Hammurabi, on the south wall of the U. S. Supreme Court building.
The effect is to momentarily create a frozen, timeless state, somewhat like figures frozen in action on the frieze of the Parthenon.
Saint Louis is also portrayed on a frieze depicting a timeline of important lawgivers throughout world history in the Courtroom at the Supreme Court of the United States.
The frieze is located around the inside of the base of the dome and is a chronological, pictorial history of the United States from the landing of Christopher Columbus to the Wright Brothers's flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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 ).
It is pictured as an offering on an Egyptian frieze dating to 3000 BC.
* c. 530 BC — 525 BC — Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragments of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is made.
In the three orders of Ancient Greek architecture, the sculptural decoration, be it a simple half round astragal, a frieze of stylised foliage or the ornate sculpture of the pediment, is all essential to the architecture of which it is a part.
Crown moldings soften transitions between frieze and cornice and emphasize the upper edge of the abacus, which is the upper part of the capital.
* Construction of the detail of the frieze from the east front of the altar in Pergamon, Athena Attacking the Giants, begins and is finished eight years later.
In the interior, noteworthy is the Sala del Fuoco (" Fire Hall "), with a painted frieze by Niccolò dell ' Abbate ( 1546 ) portraying famous characters from Ancient Rome against a typical Emilia background.
On the walls of the Dome of the Rock is an inscription in a mosaic frieze that includes the following words from Quran ( 19: 33 – 35 ), which are considered blasphemy to Christianity:
The chapter house is notable for its octagonal shape, slender central pillar and decorative mediæval frieze.
Less obvious than the jamb statues but far more intricately carved is the frieze that stretches all across the façade in the sculpted capitals on top of the jamb columns.
* The Ionic frieze on the north side of the Parthenon, is created ( finished in 432 BC ).
It is now suggested that the north ( and perhaps also the east ) frieze of the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was the work of Bupalus, based on a partially erased inscription around the circumference of one of the giant's shields, reconstructed as:
Pictorial often narrative bas-relief frieze carving provides a characteristic feature of the Ionic order, in the area where the Doric order is articulated with triglyphs.
It is usually known as the Royal Society of Arts for brevity ( and on the building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts — see photograph ).
On the RSA building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts words ( see photograph ) are engraved, although its full name is Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

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