We cannot see a column supporting an entablature without feeling that it stands firm to bear the weight, much as we should stand if we were in its place.
A Greek column, for example, not only moves upward, but also against the superincumbent load of the entablature which it carries.
Mr. Pennethorne says that the Greek entablature is perspectively proportioned and arranged to suit the given points of sight thus: The apparent height of entablature is measured in seconds upon the arc of a great circle.
At that instant a terrific flash rent the dark storm-clouds, and a shaft from the wild tempest struck to the ground the marble Statue from the apex of the Temple,--the entablature was sundered as by an earthquake!
The entrance displays columns and an entablature of debased but not unpleasing Renaissance architecture, and the building altogether resembles an English Elizabethan or Jacobean building to a greater extent than most Scottish designs.
This is a three storey building, but has pilasters carried up the piers between the windows and a regular entablature and cornice[31] at each storey.
A range of columns with their entablature (and usually covered by a pediment), marking the entrance to a Renaissance or Classic building.
Thus in Plate XII, there is given, that it may be compared with the carved work of Athens (see Plate VII) a part of the entablature of the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman Forum.
But however placed and however grouped, they, the columns, are the one decorative feature, the entablature acting in reality as their restraining limit, the needed link between them and the necessary structure.
All the buildings have the walls plain and the entablature elaborately sculptured.
The full length of the entablature is elaborately carved in a lattice-work pattern, with ornamentation superimposed, in which the snouted mask is a leading feature.
They are solid marble, eight feet in diameter, and together with the entablature which joins them at the top, ninety feet high!
The Cartridge is fill'd up with an Entablature upon which there's a Latin Inscription in Letters of Gold, to the Honor of the King.
The entablature was supported by eight Ionic columns of the slenderest and most delicate type, of dark yellow Numidian marble, while the lining of the wall-spaces was of the lighter yellow Mauretanian marble.
The banded sandstone entablature is crowned by the tower limestone.
The entablature seen over the entrance of the left ala is restored in accordance with the architectural forms commonly used in the period when the house was built.
Part of the columns and entablature belonging to the beautiful portico at the entrance of the Forum Triangulare have been set up again and are seen in our illustration (Fig.
Part of the entablature also remains; the architrave is ornamented with an acanthus arabesque in white stucco relief on a yellow background.
The entablature must have been of stone, otherwise the intercolumniations would not have been so narrow.
From the Corinthian capital and fragments of shafts and entablature lying about the court it is clear that these members were fitted and in place when they were thrown down.
Over the capitals, moulded in stucco, was an entablature resting on thick planks, and ornamented with light-colored stucco reliefs.
Lastly, in the design of the stucco ornamentation with which the entablature of the peristyle was adorned after the earthquake, the principal figures are griffins.
From this we infer that in the temple construction of the Tufa Period, the simple and elegant Ionic entablature was the prevailing type.
The entablature varies from the Doric type only in respect to the architrave, which consists of two bands.
Such inscriptions were ordinarily placed on the entablature of the portico.
The remains of the walls, columns, and entablature make it possible to reconstruct the edifice with certainty (Fig.
Above the entablature is a low wall on which there is a second row of columns; these carry the main roof and form a clerestory, the light being admitted through the intercolumniations.
The whole Doric columns still bear the massive entablature sheltered by the covering roof.
Most of the graceful Ionic columns are still standing, but large portions of the roof and entablaturehave fallen.
The capitals and entablatureare also of Parian marble.
Its portico is nearly complete; consisting of six granite columns in front, and two behind, supporting an entablature and pediment.
Four projecting columns adorn each face, and the entablature bricks around each of them.
Sometimes the frieze is omitted, as in the entablature of the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum.
From small trusses, ornamented with human heads, rise two Doric pillars, with a curved entablature which supports a pediment.
The entablature is supported by three Corinthian pillars, resting on pedestals.
In effect, we find one sunk about the gallery to the right, with a lower building to the left, and a frieze or perpendicular entablature topped by a flat roof, whilst both roof and entablatureslope on the small edifice.
The roof in the upper portion of the palace slopes gently, and the entablatureis so marvellously rich, that I found fresh details every time I visited it.
The height of the capital is a diameter and one eighth; the entablature varies from one diameter and seven eighths to two diameters and a half.
The entablature which the column supported is also of so many diameters in height.
The entablature of the temple of Jupiter Stator, like that of the Pantheon, is two diameters and one half.
A second pylon, or pyramidical tower, now leads to the interior and most considerable part of the temple, a portico inclosed with walls, which only receives light through the entablature or openings in the roof.
The whole outline of columns supporting the entablature is graceful, while the variety of light and shade arising from the arrangement of mouldings and capitals produce a grand effect.
On the lower member of the entablature of one capital there are still traces of an inscription; but it is so injured by neglect and violence, that we were unable to decipher a single word.
Two oaken statues lean from the double entablature of the chimney-piece.
A cornice in the same style as the entablature surmounted this single door.
In the centre stood a cabin, its entablature surmounted with a row of uræus-snakes, the angles squared to the shape of pillars, and the walls adorned with designs.
While it was probably badly wrecked by the Romans at the sack of the city, its massive columns with the entablature survived.
As employed in classic architecture it forms the upper part of the entablature of an order, and is there subdivided into bed mould, corona and cymatium.
Above the entablature of the lower order there are three windows in the middle flanked by Ionic pilasters and surmounted by pediments, while in the tower are large round-headed niches with pediments.
On the entablature more columns of about the same height as those below, but with Ionic capitals, stand in pairs.
These support the main entablature whose cornice and frieze are enriched, the one with egg and tongue and with dentils, and the other with strapwork and with leaves.
Above the entablature, which runs round these buttresses, there stand on the two central columns two tall Ionic semi-columns, surmounted by an entablature and pointed pediment, and enclosing a large window set back in sham perspective.
The entablature has been most delicate, with the finest wreaths carved on the frieze.
Above this entablature the shafts are carried up square for some way, and end in Gothic pinnacles.
The entablature is moulded only, and instead of a pediment two curves lead up to a horizontal moulding supporting a shell, and above it a cherub's head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entablature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
