单词 | epistylium |
释义 | epistyliumn.α. 1500s–1700s epistilium, 1600s– epistylium. β. 1800s– epistylion. Architecture. The lowest division of the entablature, consisting of the main beam that rests immediately upon the abacus on the capital of a column; = architrave n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > architrave architrave1563 epistylium1563 epistyle1592 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ Vpon the Capitall shalbe layde or set Epistilium. 1611 R. Peake tr. S. Serlio 4th Bk. Archit. f. 24 My meaning was, in the beginning of this Booke, to speake onely of the ornaments of the fiue Orders of Buildings, as of Columnes, Pedestals, Epistiliums, Zophorus, Cornices, Gates, Windowes, Niches, & such like things. a1623 W. Pemble Short Expos. Zachary (1629) 160 Pillars of Stone, whose Epistylia or Chapiters were wrought about in fashion of a Crowne. 1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 21 Mr. Jones himself computes the length of each Epistylium, or Architrave, continued in round from Column to Column, to be precisely 16. foot. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Epistilium, in Architecture, is a Piece of Stone or Mass of Timber laid upon the Capital of a Pillar. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres ii. v. 239 Above the Epistylia, or Chapiters of the Pillars of the undermost Story, the Heads of the Gods are still remaining. 1789 J. Cooke & J. Maule Hist. Acct. Royal Hosp. for Seamen at Greenwich 103 This Epistylium is enriched with Angels bearing festoons of Oak-leaves, Dolphins, Shells, and other applicable ornaments. 1816 W. Wilkins Atheniensia iv. 165 The lower fascia of the epistylium is wanting.., and the abacus of the capitals has its concave sides produced so as to meet in acute angles. 1819 E. Dodwell Classical & Topogr. Tour Greece I. xvi. 568 The greater part of the epistylion or architrave is still remaining; but the cornice, with the metopæ and triglyphs, have all fallen. 1888 J. Rhys Lect. Origin & Growth Relig. illustr. by Celtic Heathendom v. 426 There is another inscription which reads Lugoves in large bronze majuscules on an epistylium of white marble found at Avenches, in Switzerland. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 14 145 The Olympieum at Acragas, where the epistylia were not beams, but were built up in coursed masonry, supported by the walls which filled the intercolumniations. 1968 Hesperia 37 44 The lower diameter of the outer columns is also surprisingly small: 0.53 m. The architect may have been influenced by the difficulty of securing good stone for longer epistylia. 1970 Anatolian Stud. 20 14 Two other pieces of the epistylion give us the name of the dedicator of the building. 1996 J. Rykwert Dancing Column (1998) ix. 247 The three stages or fascie of the epistylium are usually at different height..and sometimes separated by a decorated heading; the epistylium widens upwards by as much as the column narrows. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1563 |
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