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.

The frieze is sometimes omitted — for example, on the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum — and probably did not exist as a structure in the temple of Diana at Ephesus.

The other two or three friezes were decorated with animals ; sometimes one of them was replaced with a plant frieze.

The frieze comes without the Doric triglyph and metope.

In haste he labored to finish some last abstract paintings: a three-panel frieze, with a flying figure and a fallen figure ; ;

The open ceiling, with allegorical and classical figures thrown in masses against the sky: the closed frieze, formally divided into historical scenes and tightly tied to the stone walls, belong in their large ordering to the line of Correggio and his Baroque followers.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

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.

In the attic above the richly sculptured frieze of soldiers are 30 shields engraved with the names of major Revolutionary and Napoleonic military victories.

The church is on the Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles with three apses decorated by a frieze.

The Tuscan order has a very plain design, with a plain shaft, and a simple capital, base, and frieze.

An important commission of 1867 was the " green dining room " at the South Kensington Museum ( now the Morris Room of the Victoria and Albert ), featuring stained glass windows and panel figures by Burne-Jones, panels with branches of fruit or flowers by Morris, and olive branches and a frieze by Philip Webb.

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 ).

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.

The Neo-Egyptian style then became a reference for Masonic architecture, and we can consider the lodge of Mons as a model of its kind with its numerous motives " Egyptian " papyrus capitals, frieze lotus bud, etc ..

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.

In the Gigantomachy from a 1st century AD frieze in the agora of Aphrodisias, the Giants are depicted with scaly coils, like Typhon

A frieze of lions devouring ibexes and deer, incised with great artistic skill, runs round the neck, while the eagle crest of Lagash adorns the globular part.

A frieze with a Centauromachy was also painted by Luca Signorelli in his Virgin Enthroned with Saints ( 1491 ), inspired by a Roman sarcophagus found at Cortona, in Tuscany, during the early 15th century.

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.

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.

A continuous frieze winds up around the tower from base to capital.

Aphrodite starts off the line-up of the gods on this side, and since one has to imagine the frieze as continuous, she is to be found next to her lover Ares, who concludes the east frieze.

There was a continuous frieze of a painted landscape representing the journey from Jerusalem to Jericho, while from the ceiling hung antique brass lamp-holders such as might have hung in Solomon ’ s Temple.

Above the pediment runs a continuous frieze.

Inside, however, there was a continuous Ionic frieze showing Greeks in battle with Amazons and the Lapiths engaged in battle with Centaurs.

His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise ( now in the Louvre ), which also procured for him the important commission for all the sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

Among the chief of these are the fanciful Maharaja of Mysore, somewhat overladen with ornament, and the colossal equestrian statue of Lord Roberts ( 1896 ) upon its important pedestal, girdled with a frieze of figures, now set up in Calcutta, and a statue of Queen Victoria for Dundee.

Many of the iconic features of the original stadium, such as the frieze and Monument Park, were incorporated into the design of the new venue.

The scalloped arches are actually a frieze, and it was originally known as such.

By extension, a frieze is a long stretch of painted, sculpted or even calligraphic decoration in such a position, normally above eye-level.

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the most important buildings in all of Islamic architecture, marked by a strong Byzantine influence ( mosaic against a gold background, and a central plan that recalls that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ), but already bearing purely Islamic elements, such as the great epigraphic frieze.

The Dome of the Rock ( Qubbat al-Sakhrah ) in Jerusalem ( 691 ) is one of the most important buildings in all of Islamic architecture, marked by a strong Byzantine influence ( mosaic against a gold background, and a central plan that resembles that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, although the church itself was renovated several times in the Islamic period ), but already bearing purely Islamic elements, such as the great epigraphic frieze.

Rather than merely using the visual examples of works such as those by Pheidias, the iconic sculptor of classical Athens, whose free standing and frieze statuary represent the acme of the classical depiction of the human form in larger-than life bronze or marble, Sicard used literary sources to explain the symbology behind the form.

Therefore, in a way, this frieze group contains the " largest " symmetry groups, which consist of all such transformations.

The sculptors were permitted to sign their sections of the frieze on the lower molding, but only a few such inscriptions have been found.

Delano's irreverent sense of humor was subtly expressed in some his architectural details and friezes, such as the low-relief frieze of tortoises and hares in the apartment block at 1040 Park Avenue, and backgammon club rooms ornamented like backgammon boards.

There is a noticeable ease to the physiques of the frieze compared with the stiffness of the metopes along with an eye for such subtleties as knuckle joints, veins and the careful articulation of musculature.

The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.

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.

It includes an ornate oak frieze including sculptures of twenty-two angels playing music, carved by Johannes Kirchmayer ( 1860 – 1930 ), and two notable stained-glass windows, " Angel of Help ," and " Figure of Wisdom ," both by John LaFarge ( 1835 – 1910 ).

This room also contained four heavy gilded tables carved with Kent's characteristic baroque shells and accompanied with central carved lion masks ( complementing the lion heads in the frieze ).

The material of which the frieze is made of may be plasterwork, carved wood or other decorative medium.

To the south of the Entrance Hall is the Library, and to the east is Wyatt's Dining Room, which has a stucco ceiling and a carved overmantel both in a late 17th-century style, as well as a frieze.

The sandstone relief eagle in the frieze of the entablature below was carved by Giuseppe Valaperta.

“ Its architecture, which is unique in Mesoamerica, is characterized by elaborate carved reliefs on the columns and frieze.

There are six carved panels with ritual scenes and an ornamental frieze that runs along both walls.

The upper floor has a colonnaded arcade, its tympana frieze is richly decorated with carved figures representing free trade, the arts, commerce, manufacture and the continents.

The royal charter's words are carved on the frieze of the Rhode Island State House: "... to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained ... with a full liberty in religious concernments.

The frieze in the first story is composed of rectangular blocks carved with leaves.

The conical roof is decorated with carved fish scales, traditional for Roman mausoleums, The frieze beneath the conical roof is decorated with a rinceau featuring carvings of acanthus leaves, used in Roman mortuary architecture to represent eternal rebirth.

The gallery on the first floor features two carved stone chimney pieces and a ceiling and frieze of Elizabethan plaster-work.

A renovation in the 1990s did not restore any of Harris's decorative painting, but did preserve many of his most important works, including a nativity scene, the Virgin Mary Enthroned, St. Patrick's and St. Catherine's altars, " The Precious Blood ", a carved and painted frieze featuring lambs, a memorial to deceased Paulists, and a crucifixion.

The temple was constructed entirely out of grey Arcadian limestone except for the frieze which was carved from marble.

Most of the interior structure, except for the carved wood frieze along the balconies, was already in place by 1875.

It is also an architectural term used to describe a common form of carved decoration in Classical architecture, used to fill the metopes between the triglyphs of the frieze of Doric temples.