The only stone capital that has come down to us has, indeed, no volutes (Fig.
The former consisted of two volutes between which appeared a vertical point resembling one of the angles of a triangle.
These volutes may also be perceived on the table in front of the tabernacle, where they support the large disk by which the sun-god is symbolized.
Under the volutes three rings, or astragali, may be seen.
The curves bear a distant resemblance to the volutes of a capital; above this base appears a ring or astragal, the origin of which may be easily guessed.
The volute is here quite simple in shape; elsewhere we find it doubled, as it were, so that four volutes occur between the astragali and the abacus (Figs.
We find these volutes everywhere, upon shafts of stone and wood indifferently.
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The Roman orders appeared only in free imitations, with panelled and carved pilasters for the most part instead of columns, and capitals of fanciful design, recalling remotely the Corinthian by their volutes and leaves (Fig.
Stepped gables, high dormers, and volutes flanking each diminishing stage of the design, give a certain piquancy to the street architecture of the period.
Amongst these it is interesting to recognise examples of such existing genera as the Volutes (Voluta, fig.
The four other volutes meet on two opposite sides of the capital; sometimes they are interwoven, and a flower, or rosette, or some other ornament is placed above them and lays up over the abacus.
The Ionic capital is very easily recognized by its spiral projections, or scrolls, which are called volutes (Fig.
The volutes are formed by the stems of red-top grass and of a round-topped variety of the Chenopodium drifted onward by the whirlwind, yet around and around their bushy adhesive tops.
A German architect and critic, Semper,[87] appears to have been the first to derive the Ionic capital from the volutes of the Assyrian palmette (Pl.
Two hours passed, and he still sat watching the red beard of a compositor, and the crimson volutes of an ear.
The light lay upon a red beard, a freckled neck, the crimson of the volutes of an ear.
Of the second I recognized the architectural back, the handsomely rolled and faced blue coat and the marble volutes of his Ionic shirt-collar: it was my good friend of the cathedral.
Here we have, following one after the other merely by a sudden alteration of the machine, two volutes of an entirely different order as regards direction, the number of whorls and intersection.
Were the arrangement of the thread determined by the length of the legs, we should find the spiral volutes separated more widely from one another in proportion to the greater length of implement in the spinstress.
The difficult transition from the end of the shaft to the volutes was evaded, and masked by anthemions or other ornaments.
There was no other expedient than to bend the faces of the corner volutesoutward in the line of the diagonal--a malformation visible at every standpoint.
The volutes thus especially referred to must have been similar to those upon the Assyrian capital, and notably to those of the rock-cut relief in the Pass of Mashnaka (Fig.
A spiral, particularly the volutes of the Ionic capital and the corner leaves and tendrils of the Corinthian.
The remarkable vertical position of the volutesis better explained by subordinate ornaments of the former than by architectural members of the latter land.
The heavy corner volutes cannot compensate for the excessive contraction of the calyx, which takes away from the unity and force of the main transitional curve.
These capitals, of Corinthian rather than of Ionic proportions, with simple fluting instead of acanthus leaves, have curious double volutes at each angle, and small winged heads in the middle of each side of the abacus.
Beautifully carved figures which, instead of having legs, end in great acanthus-leaf volutes with dragons in the centre, hold a beautifully carved wreath round this window.
Unfortunately the simplicity of the design is spoilt by the broken and curly volutes which sprawl across the aisles, by ugly finials at the corners, and by a rather clumsy balustrading to the porch.
The volutes (to the right) are deeply cut and for about one-third their length penetrate the shell, producing four crescent-shaped perforations which show on the opposite side.
There are nine arms which spring from the central point and twist spirally about as volutes until they cover the field, which is one-third the body of the bowl.
His theory develops the sun symbol from the lotus by a series of ingenious and complicated evolutions passing through the Ionic style of architecture, the volutes and spirals forming meanders or Greek frets, and from this to the Swastika.
The decoration upon its side has six incised lines crossing each other in the center and expanding in volutes until they cover the entire side of the vessel, as in the other specimens.
One of his paths of evolution closed these volutes and dropped the connecting tangent, when they formed the concentric rings of which we see so much.
It has been painted red or maroon on the outside without any decoration, while on the inside is painted with the same color a five-armed cross, spirally arranged in volutes turning to the right.
The great distinction of the Ionic column is a base, and a capital formed with volutes (spiral scrolls), the shaft also being more slender.
Few Volutes can exceed this in elegance or beauty.
The fourth principal division of the Lamarkian Volutes has hitherto been found only in a fossil state; unless, indeed, the Voluta Braziliana really belongs to this type.
But the arrangement of the Volutes is so intimately connected with that of the Mitres, that we scarcely know how to illustrate one, without perpetually adverting to the other.
Her playful Sea-horse woos her soft commands, Turns his quick ears, his webbed claws expands, His watery way with waving volutes wins, 280 Or listening librates on unmoving fins.
The volutes and the centre block are common features of Early Norman capitals, but the foliage is rare.
South aisle, east to west] gives a kind of rope-work, with volutes and human-headed dragons.
Flat applique leaves, volutesand ball-flowers; and in No.
The railroad by which Pompeii is reached runs for almost its entire length by the sea, whose long volutes of foam advance to unroll themselves upon a beach of blackish sand resembling sifted charcoal.
One of thevolutes of the well preserved limestone tomb of M.
The tomb was in the form of an altar; the terminal volutes at the top, of travertine, have been preserved.
Greek type, with volutes on two sides; elsewhere we find only the so-called Roman Ionic, with four volutes, a type that appears in several well defined and pleasing examples.
The other has upstanding volutes of a heavy kind of foliage.
Some of the Comacine buildings have these upright volutes plain instead of foliaged.
They made a rude imitation of the Ionic form, as far from the classic grace of the original, as their plain hardvolutes were from the elegance of the Corinthian.
In the Ionic order the flat abacus of the Doric capital is replaced by two coiled volutes projecting beyond the echinus on either side, and the horizontal portion between the volutes is surmounted by finely carved leaf mouldings.
The body of the temple is a columnar structure, exhibiting at either corner a broad pilaster surmounted by a capital composed of two sets of volutes placed one over the other.
Ionic; but the volutes are double, and the upper ones are surmounted by an awkward-looking abacus.
The volutes are formed by the stems of red-top grass and of a round-topped variety of the chenopodium, drifted onward by the whirlwind yet around and around their bushy adhesive tops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
