All the churches are built in fine ashlar masonry, with moulded archivolts and architraves to doorways and windows, and moulded string courses and cornices of simple design.
The doors and windows had banded architraves or trims and cavetto cornices very Egyptian in character.
Ionic columns support architraves to carry the clearstory, as in St. Peter’s.
Shafts and capitals, architraves and rich linings of veined marble, even the pagan Bacchic symbolism of the vine, it adapted to new uses in its own service.
Little remains to Volubilis in the way of important monuments: only the fragments of a basilica, part of an arch of triumph erected in honour of Caracalla, and the fallen columns and architraves which strew the path of Rome across the world.
Of the thirty-eight Doric columns which surrounded the temple only three are now wanting, and their architraves are almost intact.
One at least of the stelae which he set up on the occasion of these feasts is really a chapel, with its architraves and columns, and still, excites the admiration of the traveller on account both of its form and of its picturesque appearance.
It has fluted columns, an intricately hand-tooled dentil course in the cornice, richly incised architraves and carved ovolo moldings.
Pancrazio, which rests on great architraves placed on two columns and two pilasters, piercing the wall of the church below; which is a difficult thing, but safe; wherefore this work is one of the best that this architect ever made.
The good method, therefore, demands that architraves should rest on columns, and that, when arches are to be turned, pilasters and not columns should be made.
Upon the architraves of several gates I saw mystical symbols, belonging to the ecclesiastical architecture of the lower empire.
Of this temple nothing remains but the back wall, with two pilasters, and a column, joined by its entablature to the main wall; they are all of the Corinthian order, and both capitals and architraves are richly adorned with sculpture.
Doors are square-headed, with heavily moulded architraves and cornice, and the lintel is mitred into the jambs instead of having the more constructive horizontal joint used in the West.
In the construction of columns and many architraves large blocks were used.
Columns and architravesare white, with only slight suggestion of the earlier Greek polychrome decoration.
The architraves show the resurrection of Lazarus, and Christ's entry into Jerusalem.
The capitals and architraves are all carved with the mystic beasts and hippogriffs belonging to the religion of the day.
On the architraves are allegorical reliefs of the twelve months.
At the entrance to this pyramid, on the pillars andarchitraves in the ruins, the name of Amenemha III.
Detail of the architraves throughout is early, and those with corner blocks are probably contemporary with the rest of the house.
It has the ovolo curve in the molding around the architraves which was common in the eighteenth century and persisted into the nineteenth.
Door and window architraves in the center first floor room, and in rooms in the east wing have corner blocks, while those in the west wing do not.
On the barbarity of painting the beautiful oak work in this gallery, and especially the exquisitely carved oak architraves and cornices, we need not dwell.
The white columns with their architraves are more pleasant to the eyes.
We stood in a ruined hall with columns, architraves covered with inscriptions, segments of flat roof.
The whole of the sculpture over the architraves of the arch, is, both in its design and execution, curious.
The architraves connecting the lower rows of pillars are distinctly enounced.
The decoration of the architraves which supported the massive roofing slabs was entirely independent of that of the ceiling itself.
Nothing is better understood than that no square angles should divide a drawing-room, and the curtain is more graceful than any arch orarchitraves for that purpose.
In the hypostyle hall the architraves of the central aisle are at least 29 feet long.
No less difficult is it to discover the first idea of those sturdy shafts which seem so well proportioned to the mighty architraves which they have to support, in the slender stalk of the famous water plant.
The architraves would have had less than twenty feet to bridge over.
In this there is nothing that can be compared to the work done by the dignified virgins of the Erectheum or the muscular giants of Agrigentum, in upholding the massive architraves confided to their strength.
The motive of the architect in making use of such a junction is obvious enough; it was calculated to afford greater solidity, and it was the most convenient way in which lateral architraves could be united with those disposed longitudinally.
Above their architraves and ornaments are decorated ceilings, and the upper columns have windows set in between them.
Above the podium, the columns, including their capitals and bases, should have a height of one quarter of the same diameter, and the architraves and ornaments of the columns should be one fifth of their height.
He made wheels, each about twelve feet in diameter, and enclosed the ends of the architraves in the wheels.
Let the columns above this parapet be one fourth less in height than the columns below, and the architraves and ornaments of these columns one fifth of their height.
If they are higher, the heights of the architraves are to be worked out proportionately in the same manner from the height of the columns.
Above the architravesand regularly dispersed on supports directly over the capitals, piers are placed, three feet high and four feet broad each way.
This arrangement involves the danger that the architraves may break on account of the great width of the intervals.
In the Egyptian there are architraves over the columns, and joists laid thereon from the architravesto the surrounding walls, with a floor in the upper story to allow of walking round under the open sky.
The style of the architecture was purely Etruscan, and the intercolumniations were so wide as to require architraves of timber.
He says also that the architraves and friezes differed from one intercolumniation to another, and that some of them were inscribed with the names and praises of Titus, Trajan, Gallienus, and others.
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.
All the fallen columns are now restored to the perpendicular, and the capitals and architraves are in process of being hoisted into their original positions.
Nothing now remains of it except fragments of the architraves and granite columns, which have been used over again by Pharaohs of a later period when restoring or altering the fabric.
It consists of a double archway with two storeys of windows overhead, while the side looking towards the Corso Cavour retains still the carvings and ornamentations round the architraves and on the sides.
A tinsmith's shop is all around it, and zinc baths and tin wares and utensils hang beside the fine columns and architraves that are lost in so incongruous a setting.
The following woodcut shows the arrangement of supports, architraves and roof.
The vertical elements support the architraves and combine them one with another.
Architraves were stone beams used to bridge over the voids and to support the covering of the building, which latter was composed of long and heavy slabs.
Apart from the ceilings, architraves and other places where big stones were necessary, the blocks are of an average height of about half a yard, with a proportionate length and thickness.
Both roof and architraves being horizontal, all the pressure upon the walls is vertical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "architraves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
