to make foliage ornament and decoration in the architectural tradition emanating from Greece and Rome. In architecture, an ornament may be carved into...

In architecture and the decorative arts, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, whose alleged function was originally...

menstruation, provided that she does not take her parents' property or ornaments received by her before the marriage. However, if she marries a man her...

Vazaca, Marina (1999). Muzeul Național de Artă al României Ghidul Colecțiilor (in Romanian). Muzeul Național de Artă al României. p. 70. ISBN 2-7118-3840-4...

cultures during Prehistory. The first objects featuring abstract geometric ornaments are from the Late Paleolithic and early Mesolithic, discovered in 1966...

filigree detailing, displayed across various components including ear ornaments, finger rings, necklaces, belt buckles and buttons. Key components include...

18th century, rocaille became the term for a kind of decorative motif or ornament that appeared in the late Louis XIV style, in the form of a seashell interlaced...

comes from through the symbols and colours used. The fotă is a richly ornamented wrap-around skirt made out of a rectangular piece of woollen fabric worn...

with the result that flat surfaces and right angles returned to fashion. Ornament was used to mediate this severity, but it never interfered with basic lines...

Introducere în Istoria Designului (in Romanian). Editura Fundației Ileana - Artă, Design, Arhitectură. p. 58. ISBN 978-606-92784-3-7. Woinaroski, Cristina...

Leonidas Drosis (his major work was the extensive neo-classical architectural ornament at the Academy of Athens, Lazaros Sochos, Georgios Vitalis, Dimitrios Filippotis...

funerary armor, and women in gold crowns and clothes gleaming with gold ornaments. The royal shaft graves next to the acropolis of Mycenae, in particular...

image of the facade as an element of ornament, carved wooden awnings, and tiled roofs. Commonly used ornaments are knots and ropes (aka interlace), peacocks...

architecture. For each function its material; for each material its form and its ornament." This book influenced a generation of architects, including Louis Sullivan...

Dacians, a distinct branch of the Thracians. These bracelets were used as ornaments, currency, high rank insignia and votive offerings Their ornamentations...

composite order volutes are larger, however, and there is generally some ornament placed centrally between the volutes. The column of the composite order...

hair, only flowing down over their neck at the back of the head as an ornament. Royal and aristocratic Achaemenid women were given an education in subjects...

relating to religious symbolism. Symbols are depicted in every variety of ornament and reveal that the chief object of the prehistoric cult of the Illyrians...

original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2008. "Muzeul Național de Artă din Cluj-Napoca" (in Romanian). CIMEC (Institutul de Cultură Morală). Archived...

and of the nobility. The nobility also adopted Greek fashions in dress, ornament and military equipment, spreading it to the other tribes. Thracian kings...

panorama of the Northern Necropolis of Ulpiana. A remnant of an Egg-and-dart ornament, excavated at Ulpiana. The Baptisterium, not far from the Basilica, but...

not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building"...

begun in 1643 by Pedro de la Torre. It contrasted an extreme richness of ornament on the exterior with simplicity in the interior, divided into multiple...

of the moon, of the stars, eagles, and serpents. The mostly geometric ornaments show the archaic character of this costume. Gjergji, Andromaqi (2004)...

Napaios was built in the 7th century BC. Some special capitals with floral ornament have been found, which are called Aeolic, and it seems that they were borrowed...

made by the Milanese artist Pietro di Martino (who also sculpted the ornaments in the Rector's Palace and made a statue – now lost – for the Franciscan...

purchased by tourists visiting Bethlehem. Religious handicrafts include ornaments handmade from mother-of-pearl, as well as olive wood statues, boxes, and...

left to right: Phrygian type helmet, Pileus helmet with an olive branch ornament, Chalcidian helmet. Staatliche Antikensammlungen Odysseus wearing pileus...

Drosis whose major work was the extensive neo-classical architectural ornament at the Academy of Athens, Lazaros Sochos, Georgios Vitalis, Dimitrios Filippotis...

is panelled in purple and purple-veined white marble, with inlaid gold ornaments. Seating for the MPs is arranged in five circular sectors. The speaker's...