Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface. The term typically refers to the curved grooves (flutes)...
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Look up fluting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fluting may refer to: Fluting (architecture) Fluting (firearms) Fluting (geology) Fluting (glacial)...
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grooves known as fluting. This fluting or grooving of the columns is a retention of an element of the original wooden architecture. The columns of a...
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(disambiguation) Groovy (disambiguation) Grove (disambiguation) Fluting (architecture), in architecture refers to the shallow grooves running vertically along...
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plastic tongues are used to form the joint. Cabinet making Carpentry Fluting (architecture) Gland (engineering) Groove (engineering) Larssen sheet piling Pulley...
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wheel. Grooves were used by ancient Roman engineers to survey land. Fluting (architecture) Gland (engineering) Glass run channel Groove (joinery) Grooved...
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Classical order (redirect from Orders of architecture)
order, and is sometimes articulated with vertical concave grooves known as fluting. The shaft is wider at the bottom than at the top, because its entasis...
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Reeding (category Architectural elements)
fashion was inspired by Greek and Roman architectural styles, and is the opposite of fluting. In architecture, reeding is a form of molding usually found...
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Corinthian order (redirect from Corinthian (architecture))
Alternatively, beading or chains of husks may take the place of the fillets in the fluting, Corinthian being the most flexible of the orders, with more opportunities...
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columns no fluting is used A so-called "swallow-tail" (or "dovetail") staple. This is an early, huge example of staple used in architecture in order to...
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or bell-shaped) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs. The temples may be built upon a platform...
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Doric order (redirect from Doric architecture)
(the stylobate), without bases. The recessed "necking" in the nature of fluting at the top of the shafts and the wide cushionlike echinus may be interpreted...
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Neoclassicism (redirect from Neoclassical Art and Architecture)
lion heads, chimeras, and gryphons. Greco-Roman architectural motifs are also heavily used: flutings, pilasters (fluted and unfluted), fluted balusters...
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kokoshnik arches, columns (usually Corinthian), sometimes with twisted flutings, and metallic or ceramic tile roof. The main ornaments used for decoration...
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John Ruskin (redirect from Excrescence (architecture))
to the dais, spread out papers and began to read in a pleasant though fluting voice. Long hair, brown with grey through it; a soft brown beard, also...
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Ionic order (redirect from Ionic architecture)
Greek Doric fluting, which runs out to an arris or sharp edge, that was easily damaged by people brushing it as they passed by, Ionic fluting leaves a little...
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Molding (decorative) (redirect from Molding (architecture))
furniture design (Thomas Sheraton) Cabled fluting or cable: Convex circular moulding sunk in the concave fluting of a classic column, and rising about one-third...
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Pilaster (category Architectural elements)
only its fluting to identify its relation to a column, is "pilaster strip". Ching, Francis D. K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. Van Nostrand...
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Church window (redirect from Windows in Church Architecture)
one, and later replacing the rectangular intervals of the intrados by flutings. As the style grew the small capitals of the round shafts were abandoned...
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Solomonic column (category Baroque architectural features)
twist-fluting alternating with wide bands of foliated reliefs. From Byzantine examples, the Solomonic column passed to Western Romanesque architecture. In...
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Bathtub Madonna (category Architectural elements)
have decorative features that their recycled counterparts lack, such as fluting reminiscent of a scallop shell. The grotto is sometimes embellished with...
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themselves to radiating motifs: a sunburst of bellflower husks, radiating fluting, a low vase of flowers, etc. The Flemish painter Giusto Utens rendered...
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Louis XVI style (category Ancien Régime French architecture)
and lion heads, chimeras, and gryphons. Greco-Roman architectural motifs are also very used: flutings, pilasters (fluted and unfluted), fluted balusters...
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Ottoman decoration (redirect from Ottoman architectural decoration)
for this era: shaped like an inverse bell, either plain or covered with fluting or other carved details, and often with volutes at its upper corners. The...
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moulding springing from square imposts. These are decorated with vertical fluting. The jambs are of large flat stones, at right angles to the wall. The form...
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Brandenburg Gate (category Neoclassical architecture in Germany)
illustrated records. The Greek Doric does not have bases to the columns, and the fluting here follows the Greek style for Ionic and Corinthian columns, with flat...
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Persian column (category Achaemenid architecture)
have had a similar principle, before 20 flutes became the convention. Fluting is also found in other parts of the classical Persian column. The bases...
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Empire style (category Neoclassical architecture)
rattles and especially lyres). Despite their antique derivation, the fluting and triglyphs so prevalent under Louis XVI are abandoned. Egyptian Revival...
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Arris (category Architectural elements)
any intersection of divergent architectural details. The term also refers to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. The origin...
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