The entablatures and coffered ceilings, light and airy as they often seem, have nevertheless a suggestion of reality; we know that architectural forms are presented, and not mere stripes of color.
The entablatures of the temples built in the Tufa Period, as of those erected in later times, have all perished.
The use of entablatures applied to the wall and of engaged columns, common in Roman work, seems to involve an attempt at a fusion of two contradictory styles, and is usually condemned as such.
The entablatures of these buildings still exhibit specimens of delicate and very elegant sculpture.
From the library is a niche, decorated in gold, with memorial entablatures to the memory of Mrs. Browning.
There are no entablatures constructed with flat arches which replace, or, as in this case, relieve a flat lintel composing the epistyle.
There is no repose anywhere, for the little columns are all different, and the bad effect is increased by the way the different entablatures are broken out over the many projections.
Within this framework the stone is cut back with sloping sides, carved with architectural detail, arches, doors, entablatures in perspective.
As in the cathedral, slim candelabrum shafts stand between each division and at the ends, but the entablatures are less refined, and the sharp pediments at the two sides are unpleasing, as is the small round one and the vases at the top.
Decorative pilasters with broken entablatures and carved baluster-shafts were employed with little reference to constructive lines, but with great refinement of detail, in spite of the exuberant profusion of the ornament.
Gables and dormers alike are built in diminishing stages, each step adorned with a console or scroll, and the whole treated with pilasters or colonnettes and entablatures breaking over each support (Fig.
This practice became general with the multiplication of many-storied arcades like those of the amphitheatres, the engaged columns being set between the arches as buttresses, supporting entablatures which marked the divisions into stories (Fig.
The public buildings, whose ruins are now forests as it were of white fluted columns, and which then supported entablatures loaded with sculpture, were seen on all sides over the roofs of the houses.
Thence through other porticoes and labyrinths of walls and columns, some broken, some entire, theirentablatures strewed under them.
The doors, at one end opening into the vestibule leading into the cabinet library, and at the other into the sculpture-gallery, have their cases of white marble, the entablatures supported on massive Ionic columns.
The walls are of finely-dressed sandstone, and the door-cases of Derbyshire marble; the entablaturessupported by Corinthian columns and pilasters of various marbles with gilt capitals.
On the entablatures and roofs were represented Syrens, the hollow bodies of which were filled, but in an imperceptible manner, with musicians, who sang mournful airs and dirges in honour of the deceased.
This is strewed with broken columns, mutilated capitals, and the remains of entablatures and cornices.
So from that time on, many have put up statues of Persians supporting entablaturesand their ornaments, and thus from that motive have greatly enriched the diversity of their works.
The Greeks lay out their forums in the form of a square surrounded by very spacious double colonnades, adorn them with columns set rather closely together, and with entablatures of stone or marble, and construct walks above in the upper story.
Mouldings were discovered of incomparable elegance; the figures on entablatures were found to be chiselled accurately from nature; the pillars were of matchless proportions, the capitals of graceful curvatures.
This was a fine mansion, with a grand semicircular front, ornamented with rich entablatures and a few Grecian pillars.
The external façade is composed of four stories, separated by entablatures that run completely round the building without a break.
This is a large square, surrounded by lofty porticos of fluted columns, some broken, some entire, their entablatures strewed under them.
But they become greater and nobler as we run over the successive steps in the long series by which their massive columns and entablatures grew into the tall clusters and soaring arches of Westminster and Amiens.
Groups of statuary ornament the central projections of the building, and orders of pilasters, columns, entablatures and balustrades add to it their elegant finish.
They command an extensive view both of sea and land, and in their primal days must, with their tower-like columns, their sculptured entablatures and pediments, have risen above the scene in majestic grandeur.
All the columns are standing; the entablatures and pediments are in pretty good preservation, but it is roofless, and flowers and weeds are now waving where once trode the white-robed priests.
Wall columns support entablatures from which spring ten arches immediately beneath the cornice.
Along the walls are twenty-two columns in pairs, with Corinthian caps; these support entablatures from which spring ten arches, four on either side and one at each end.
Imposing in its simplicity, the interior is generally Doric in character, but the Ionic entablatures over the side sections of the beautiful Palladian chancel window reflect the treatment outside.
These support two complete entablatures forming the lintels of the rectangular windows and being carried around into the embrasure of the central window, the keyed arch of which springs from the entablatures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entablatures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
