GLOSSARY
OF TERMS NOT DEFINED IN THE TEXT.
Alcazar (Span., from Arabic Al Kasr), a palace or castle, especially of a governing official.
Archivolt, a band or group of mouldings decorating the wall-face of an arch; or a transverse arch projecting slightly from the surface of a barrel or groined vault.
Astylar, without columns.
Balnea, a Roman bathing establishment, less extensive than the thermæ.
Bel Etage, the principal story of a building, containing the reception rooms and saloons; usually the second story (first above the ground story).
Broken Entablature, an entablature which projects forward over each column or pilaster, returning back to the wall and running along with diminished projection between the columns, as in the Arch of Constantine (Fig. 63).
Cantoned Piers, piers adorned with columns or pilasters at the corners or on the outer faces.
Cartouche (Fr.), an ornament shaped like a shield or oval. In Egyptian hieroglyphics, the oval encircling the name of a king.
Cavetto, a concave, quarter-round moulding.
Chevron, a V-shaped ornament.
Chryselephantine, of ivory and gold; used of statues in which the nude portions are of ivory and the draperies of gold.
Console, a large scroll-shaped bracket or ornament, having its broadest curve at the bottom.
Corinthianesque, resembling the Corinthian; used of capitals having corner-volutes and acanthus leaves, but combined otherwise than in the classic Corinthian type.
Empaistic, made of, or overlaid with, sheet-metal beaten or hammered into decorative patterns.
Exedræ, curved seats of stone; niches or recesses, sometimes of considerable size, provided with seats for the public.
Fenestration, the whole system or arrangement of windows and openings in an architectural composition.
Four-part. A four-part vault is a groined vault formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults. Its diagonal edges or groins divide it into four sections, triangular in plan, each called a compartment.
Gigantomachia, a group or composition representing the mythical combat between the gods and the giants.
Half-timbered, constructed with a timber framework showing externally, and filled in with masonry or brickwork.
Imaum, imâm, a Mohammedan priest.
Kaabah, the sacred shrine at Meccah, a nearly cubical structure hung with black cloth.
Karafah, a region in Cairo containing the so-called tombs of the Khalifs.
Laconicum, the sweat-room in a Roman bath; usually of domical design in the larger thermæ.
Mezzanine, a low, intermediate story.
Mueddin, a Mohammedan mosque-official who calls to prayer.
Narthex, a porch or vestibule running across the front of a basilica or church.
Neo-Gothic, |
in a style which seeks to revive and adapt or apply to modern uses the forms of the Middle Ages. |
Neo‑Mediæval, |
Oculus, a circular opening, especially in the crown of a dome.
Ogee Arch, one composed of two juxtaposed S-shaped or wavy curves, meeting in a point at the top.
Palæstra, an establishment among the ancient Greeks for physical training.
Pavilion (Fr. pavillon), ordinarily a light open structure of ornate design. As applied to architectural composition, a projecting section of a façade, usually rectangular in plan, and having its own distinct mass of roof.
Quarry Ornament, any ornament covering a surface with two series of reticulated lines enclosing approximately quadrangular spaces or meshes.
Quatrefoil, with four leaves or foils; composed of four arcs of circles meeting in cusps pointing inward.
Quoins, slightly projecting blocks of stone, alternately long and short, decorating or strengthening a corner or angle of a façade.
Revetment, a veneering or sheathing.
Rustication, treatment of the masonry with blocks having roughly broken faces, or with deeply grooved or bevelled joints.
Soffit, the under-side of an architrave, beam, arch, or corona.
Spandril, the triangular wall-space between two contiguous arches.
Squinch, a bit of conical vaulting filling in the angles of a square so as to provide an octagonal or circular base for a dome or lantern.
Stoa, an open colonnade for public resort.
Tepidarium, the hot-water hall or chamber of a Roman bath.
Tympanum, the flat space comprised between the horizontal and raking cornices of a pediment, or between a lintel and the arch over it.
Voussoir, any one of the radial stones composing an arch.
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Highlighted names link back to the beginning of this Index. Page numbers
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The surname is in all cases followed by a comma.
Adams, Robert 234
Agnolo, Baccio d’ 291
Agnolo, Gabriele d’ 287
Alberti, Leo Battista 277, 280
Ammanati, Bartolomeo 300
Anselm, Prior 219
Anthemius of Tralles, 127
Antonio, Master 259
Arnold, Master 243
Baltard, Victor 371
Barry, Sir Charles 380
Bassevi, 356
Battista, Juan 351
Benci di Cione, 266
Bernardo di Lorenzo, 282
Bernini, Lorenzo 295, 303, 319
Bianchi, 305
Bondone, Giotto di 258, 263, 272
Borset, 334
Bramante Lazzari, 289, 290, 294, 295, 321
Brandon, Richard 378
Bregno, Antonio 284
Brongniart, 363
Brunelleschi, Filippo 275, 276, 280, 281, 289
Bulfinch, Charles 390
Buon, Bartolomeo 284
Buonarotti, Michael Angelo 289, 292, 294, 295, 296, 299
Burges, William 380
Campbell, Colin 333
Campello, 255
Caprarola, Cola da 293
Caprino, Meo del 286
Chalgrin, 362
Chambers, Sir William 333
Chambiges, Pierre 313
Chrismas, Gerard 327
Christodoulos, 150
Cimabue, 258
Columbe, Michel 310
Cortona, Domenico di 316
Cossutius, 68
De Fabris, 261
De Key, Lieven 336
De Keyser, Hendrik 336
Della Porta, Giacomo 292, 299, 300
Della Robbia, Luca 281
Déperthes, 373
Derrand, François 319
Desiderio da Settignano, 281
De Tessin, Nicodemus 337
De Vriendt (or Floris), Cornelius 334, 335
Diego de Siloë, 348
Domenico di Cortona, 316
Donatello, 275
Dosio, Giovanni Antonio 291
Duban, Félix 364
Du Cerceau, Jean Batiste 318
Emerson, William 382
Enrique de Egaz, 349
Erwin von Steinbach, 241
Federighi, Antonio 282
Ferstel, H. von 375
Fiesole, Mino da 281
Filarete, Antonio 283
Flitcroft, 333
Floris (De Vriendt), Cornelius 334, 335
Fontaine, 362
Fontana, Domenico 295, 299, 300, 304
Fra Giocondo, 286
Fra Ristoro, 256
Fra Sisto, 256
Fuga, Ferdinando 305
Gabriel, Jacques Ange 324, 367
Gabriele d’Agnolo, 287
Gaddi, Taddeo 263
Gadyer, Pierre 315
Galilei, Alessandro 305
Garnier, Charles 372
Gerhardt von Riel, 243
Giacomo di Pietrasanta, 286
Gibbs, James 332, 333, 356, 385
Giocondo, Fra 286
Giotto di Bondone, 258, 263, 272
Gumiel, Pedro 349
Hansen, Theophil 360
Have, Theodore 327
Hawksmoor, 332
Hendrik de Keyser, 336
Henri de Narbonne, 249
Henry of Gmünd, 255
Herrera, Francisco 352
Herrera, Juan d’ 348, 350, 351
Hoban, Thomas 390
Holbein, Hans 327
Hunt, Richard M. 393
Isodorus of Miletus, 127
Jansen, Bernard 327
Jefferson, Thomas 390
John, Master 243
John of Padua, 328
Juan Battista, 351
Junckher of Cologne, 241
Kent, 333
Lassus, J. B. A. 371
Latrobe, Benjamin H. 389
Laurana, Francesco 310
Laurana, Luciano 287
Le Breton, Gilles 313
Lefuel, Hector 372
Lemercier, Jacques 312, 319, 322
Le Nepveu, Pierre 314
Le Vau (or Levau) 320
Lieven de Key, 336
Ligorio, Pirro 293
Lippi, Annibale 293
Lira, Valentino di 343
Lombardi, Antonio 284
Lombardi, Martino 284
Lombardi, Moro 284
Lombardi, Pietro 284
Longhena, Baldassare 304
Lorenzo, Bernardo di 282
Louis, Victor 362
Luca della Robbia, 281
Lunghi, Martino (the elder) 304, 305
Mansart, François 322
Mansart, Jules Hardouin 320, 321, 322
Marchionne, 305
Marini, Giovanni 339
Martino, Pietro di 287
Matthew of Arras, 243
Meo del Caprino, 286
Meruan, Jacobus of 255
Métézeau, 318
Michelozzi, Michelozzo 279, 283
Mino da Fiesole, 281
Mnesicles, 65
Mullet, A. B. 392
Nénot, Henri P. 374
Palladio, Andrea 299, 301, 319, 328, 350
Percier, Charles 362
Perrault, Claude 320
Peruzzi, Baldassare 289, 291, 292, 294
Phidias, 62
Pietrasanta, Giacomo di 286
Pintelli, Baccio 286
Pisano, Giovanni 260
Pisano, Niccolo 272
Polaert, 382
Poyet, 363
Pugin, A. Welby 378
Pythius, 71
Raphael Sanzio, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293
Rickman, Thomas 378
Riel, Gerhardt von 243
Ristoro, Fra 256
Rizzio, Antonio 284
Rossellini, Bernardo 286
Ruiz, Fernando 352
Sammichele, Michele 293, 299, 300, 329
San Gallo, Antonio da (the Elder) 294
San Gallo, Antonio da (the Younger) 289, 291, 294
San Gallo, Giuliano da 278, 291, 292, 294
Sansovino, Giacopo Tatti 289, 293, 299, 300, 304
Satyrus, 71
Schinkel, Friedrich 358, 360, 376
Schmidt, F. 378
Scott (General) 382
Scott, Sir Gilbert 380
Semper, Ottfried 376
Sens, William of 219
Servandoni, 323
Settignano, Desiderio da 281
Shaw, Norman 382
Siccardsburg, 376
Smirke, Robert 356
Smithson, Robert 328
Soane, Sir John 356
Soufflot, J. J. 362
Steinbach, Erwin von 241
Stella, Paolo della 339
Street, George Edmund 380
Stuhler, 359
Talenti, Francesco Di 259, 263
Talenti, Simone di 266
Taylor, Robert 334
Tessin, Nicodemus de 337
Thomson, Alexander 357
Thornton, 389
Thorpe, John 328
Titz, 376
Torregiano, 327
Trevigi, 327
Valentino di Lira, 343
Van Aken, 343
Van Brugh, Sir John 332
Van Noort, William 336
Van Noye, Sebastian 336
Van Vitelli, 304
Vasari, Giorgio 162
Viart, Charles 311
Viel, 372
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da 289, 292, 296, 299, 300, 301
Vignon, Pierre 362
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel 370, 371
Vischer, Kaspar 343
Vischer, Peter 347
Visconti, Louis T. J. 371, 372
Vitoni, Ventura 293
Von der Null, 376
Wallot, Jean 333
Walter, Thomas Ustick 391
Waterhouse, Alfred 381
Webb, Aston 382
Wilkins, 357
William of Sens, 219
Wood, 333