This distaste led to a reaction in favor of wood, resulting in the displacement of the architrave and the facing of the space between architrave and opening with tiles, iron or marble.
These, however, have been so long out of favor that the rules regulating their dimensions have been lost sight of, and the modern door and architrave are seldom satisfactory in these respects.
The architraveof the modern door has been neglected for the same reasons as the window-architrave.
It has already been pointed out that the juxtaposition of a dark-colored door and a white architrave was not approved by French and Italian architects.
The architrave and embrasure of a window are now regarded as of no more importance in the decorative treatment of a room than the inside of the chimney.
The same is found in the synagogues in Palestine of the 2nd century; and later, in Byzantine architecture, these moulded archivolts above an architrave constitute one of the characteristics of the style.
The depth of the architrave on its under side should answer to the necking at the top of the column.
The cymatium of the architrave should be one seventh of the height of the whole architrave, and its projection the same.
The architrave has the height of one half of the thickness of a column.
Over the frieze comes the line of dentils, made of the same height as the middle fascia of the architrave and with a projection equal to their height.
Then, above the architrave and perpendicularly over the lower tier of columns, columns one fourth smaller should be imposed.
If the columns are at least twelve feet and not more than fifteen feet high, let the height of the architrave be equal to half the thickness of a column at the bottom.
The depth of the architrave on its under side just above the capital, is to be equivalent to the thickness of the top of the column just under the capital, and on its uppermost side equivalent to the foot of the shaft.
The architrave above its portico was that where Rienzi affixed his famous inscription, announcing the return to the Good Estate: "In breve tempo gli Romani torneranno al loro antico buono stato.
Above thearchitrave are frescoes by Fracassini, of the lives and martyrdoms of SS.
By Pintelli the present capitals were added to the columns in the nave, and the horizontalarchitrave above them was exchanged for a series of narrow round-headed arches.
Its chief function is to provide a larger supporting surface for thearchitrave or arch it has to carry.
The architrave of the larger, known as Porta di Civita, measures about 17 ft.
The piers are large, and consist of clustered shafts, lozenge-shaped in plan, set on much moulded bases, and having beautifully carved foliated capitals from which spring architrave mouldings of great variety.
The whole architrave is surmounted by a weather moulding in the form of a gable, with a recently executed cross in the style of the thirteenth century at the top.
It is certain that Biduinus as well as Gruamont worked in Lucca, for the relief of the architrave of S.
The arch superimposed on the architrave has a rich scroll of cherubs and foliage, and it rests on two huge lions.
The architrave is a grand intreccio of oak branches while the pilasters, which form the door-jambs, have richly-carved capitals of mixed acanthus leaves and Ionic volutes, with a mystic beast clinging to each.
The architrave and the upper part, which consists of an arcade patched on in white and black marble, belong to Giovanni Buono's restoration in 1263.
That the Gruamons who carved the Magi on the architrave of S.
There is an inscription on the sculpture of the architrave of the facade which has been a great bone of contention.
One has four dark marble pillars on each side of the door, of which the lintels and architrave are richly carved in reliefs.
Here the network of arches are not real galleries, but only sculpturesque simulations; each arch is simply placed on the top of the other, without architrave or frieze.
The capitals supporting this architrave are evidently by one of his subordinates; they are very rough, but full of meaning, explaining the mystery of the Annunciation and Conception; below them the signature Magister enricus mi fecit.
The stone is evidently a remnant of the ancient architrave of the facade, where it has been replaced by two modern slabs, and the arch above filled in with masonry.
In the tympanum of the arch stand three bishops, and over the architrave two other lions on brackets mark the spring of the arch.
On the architrave he has himself chronicled it--"1351, m.
There is a similar design on thearchitrave of an ancient door in San Clemente, Rome.
On the architrave of the Porta dei Borsari, when by order of the Emperor Gallienus the city was enclosed afresh by a wall, there was an inscription recording this fact, and proclaiming that Verona was "Colonia Augusta Nova Gallieniana.
Around them are grouped Old Testament saints, while in the architrave above are the medallions of three crowned women, who were once supposed to represent Faith, Hope and Charity.
These rise to the same height as the former ones, and over these the continuous architrave returns towards the outer row of pillars and columns.
An architrave of several pieces is stronger than that of one single piece, if those pieces are placed with their length in the direction of the centre of the world.
The three columns are bound together by iron rods, and still further kept in position by the fragments of architrave and cornice supported by them.
As this architrave projected beyond the face of the wall, the window-sill was brought forward to receive it, as shown on Fig.
The first member of the architrave moulding is generally a bead of the same diameter as the knuckle of the hinge.
The centre of the pivot pin of the hinge must be half the distance between the face of the door, when closed, and the outside of the architrave moulding.
This will allow the door to open as shown by the dotted line, and it will not clear the architrave moulding.
The pillar of a temple is made to support the architrave and is for that purpose only.
It is true that in the archaic age experiments were made in carving reliefs on the lower drums of columns (as at Ephesus) and on the line of the architrave (as at Assus).
Even in a less colossal mode of building a column is more effective when it is a monolith, and an architrave more beautiful when its beams are not joined too frequently.
Above the architrave and resting on it is the frieze; this is ornamented with fluted spaces called triglyphs, because they are cut in three flutings.
This architrave is made of separate blocks of marble or stone, and is finished at the top by a small strip of the same materials, which is called a tenia.
The entablature had three members, the architrave or epistyle, the frieze, and the cornice.
The great architrave was of Moresque work of a dark-blue-lacquered tile.
The door was once arched, and on the architrave are the remains of a fine Arabic inscription.
Part also of the propylaean columns have been thrown down, with a mass of the architrave on the western front of the Erectheion, and one of the columns of the Olympeion.
His name occurs on thearchitrave of the rebuilt church of S.
The ciborium has three octagonal stages pierced with quatrefoils, above long architrave blocks, the carving of all the lower part being Renaissance in style.
Towards the piazza, five marble pillars (in several pieces) support moulded brackets, upon which an architrave beam rests, and there is one on the shorter side.
A gilded inscription on the front of the architrave gives the angelic greeting.
The door externally is square-headed, and has an architrave with sculptured della Robbia like fruits.
Those at the sides support arches beneath an architrave continued across the end and rising into an arched form over the central space beneath the pediment.
One ought not to omit mentioning the chapel of the Campo Santo, which has a strange façade with three great conventional shell forms above a rose-window, and a carved architrave with Renaissance motifs above the door.
The portico is supported by a range of most stately columns; the inscription cut in the architrave shows it to have been the Temple of Faustina.
From the Mole, we ascend to a church of great antiquity, formerly sacred to Castor and Pollux, as the Greek letters carved on the architrave and the busts of their two statues testify.
From every architrave and cornice depended garlands and draperies, and tinted banners waved unseen in the dark.
The light from a high slit under the architrave sifted down on the floor strewn with carpets of Damascene weave.
In the soffit of the architrave are sunk panels of various patterns, the six-armed cross occurring twice.
The architrave was in three faces, with a small bead ornament to the upper two, and finished above with a small projecting moulding.
To the east of these compartments stands what was the original eastern wall of the church, and in it, in the north aisle, a large doorway retaining its architrave and cornice, is still found.
The northern compartment had an opening, which is still surmounted by architrave and cornice, also in its north wall.
These are not the actual uppermost roof-blocks, but only the architraves from pillar to pillar; the original roof consisted of similar blocks laid across in the transverse direction from architrave to architrave.
The architrave which the Caryatids (Arrephoroi) carry may be compared with the long chest which the maidens bear on their heads, and the discs on the architrave with the discs which ornament the chest.
The inference from Professor Doerpfeld's important observation is that the anta was intended to carry a lintel or an architrave reaching west.
The discs on the architrave are usually explained as a substitute for a frieze, but the logic of such substitution is quite unclear.
But even this slight concession was denied; the western line of the wing was forced back; a unique pier had to be built and a narrow architrave placed upon it (Bohn, op.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "architrave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
