| 单词 | volute |
| 例句 | Doric columns are the strongest and simplest, Corinthian ones are the lightest and most ornate, adorned with rows of acanthus leaves giving rise to graceful volutes and helices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A long pointer, emerging from the area of no light beside the screen, rests on the volutes and helices, indicating which is which. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For a book in progress called “First Woman Architect,” he has sketched hundreds of buildings with signature Wilbraham details like oversize Corinthian pilasters and swan’s-neck volutes. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z Her basic eyeliner became an ornate volute, a swath of clown makeup, a cat mask. A Bad Girl With a Touch of Genius 2011-07-27T21:06:38Z Landry and project architect Todd Riley swapped the pseudo-Mediterranean exterior details for a graceful vocabulary of columns and arches, volutes and finials. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z But given that some of his styles resemble continuous figure eights or French-curved volutes or musical notes or stars with comet trails or Celtic knots or all-over mazes, this seems close to impossible. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z The stupa, with all its primordial power, sits behind an ornate gateway, or torana, whose sculpted beams undulate, their playfulness culminating in whorled volutes, reminiscent of Ionic capitals. How the Buddha Got His Face 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Give the nautilus itself to a mathematician, and he will show you that one secret of its gracefulness lies in its following in its volute or whorl a particular geometrical curve with rigid precision. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Sometimes the term “volute” is given to the angle helix, which is incorrect, as it is of a different design and rises from the same stalk as the central helices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z 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 Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The cone over the straight inside pipe was made with volute flanges on its under side, which gave a rotary motion to the sparks. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z This volute may be looked upon as one of the most characteristic features of the Period. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z Iron bands are readily bent into volutes, or curves of various descriptions, and the parts so formed can be united by welding, screws, or bolts. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The roof of quadripartite vaulting is supported by four very dwarf thick cylindrical columns, the capitals of which and of the responds are clumsy imitations of classical work with rude volutes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z On their heads they wore high mitres, also of crimson velvet, curving backward in a volute, and encircled at the base with a coronet of tinsel spear-heads. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Our progress was stopped, in the sixth of a mile, by the edge of the ridge connecting the two peaks, and we perceived that it curled over in a lovely volute. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Coming still nearer, they noticed that the waves increased, and that their curling volutes at the moment of breaking would cover them up if they could get them in their power. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Seven have Corinthian capitals and seven are Romanesque with traces of Byzantine origin in the figures, beasts and birds which form the volutes. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The three exposed faces of the capital had each a pair of Ionic volutes. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Hanging from the ceiling, a candelabrum of gilt bronze spreads its branches twisted into elegant volutes. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z These cornices are frequently rolled round in a volute, and sometimes take most extravagant forms. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z It reminds one of the ancient Greek Ionic wooden capitals in Athens, Asia Minor, or elsewhere, which possessed rough or incipient volutes. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The capitals of these are pure Corinthian, and Corinthian with cornucopi� volutes and medallion heads. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z In the centre of the volute is a stud of marble separately made. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z It was by far and away the largest I have ever seen—quite an armful of a volute. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Behind them nipa roared; black volutes of smoke rose heavily to the sky, broke against the turquoise lid and, rebounding, filled the air with acrid haze. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z An outstanding example of woodcarving is the folk Jacobean capital with its heart shield and twin volutes at the dwelling, "Christ's Cross," in New Kent. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The throat underneath the volute is very massive, although all the edges are finished off with the utmost delicacy and sharp tooling. Antonio Stradivari 2011-06-28T02:00:11.050Z Top of stel�, in form of a capital of a pilaster with a palmette between two volutes springing from acanthus leaves, and an egg and dart moulding. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z I could see that it was alive, and was a volute of some kind. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The fish-corral still made inscrutable the mystery behind, and he could see only the smoke, now a sooty black, rising in heavy volutes to the green sky. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z He also complained, "That the place for the sublime in his head was very much narrowed by the innumerable volutes and monuments which the temple shut up therein at the same time with itself." Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Between the slim columns crowned with Ionian volutes, the goddess stood instinct with life upon a pedestal of rose-coloured stone laden with rich votive offerings. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z A volute and a complete base of an Ionic column were discovered, but were immediately destroyed by Arabs. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Bend pipes, and the volute casings of centrifugal pumps and pipes, afford examples of this kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Others are strings of large beads of gold, decorated with volutes, knots and other patterns of wire soldered over the surfaces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The Ionic expresses increased lightness, by the interposition of its volute, as if the superincumbent weight had but gently pressed a soft solid into a scroll. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Although with the Mollusca sexual selection does not seem to have come into play; yet many univalve and bivalve shells, such as volutes, cones, scallops, &c., are beautifully coloured and shaped. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z The pediment is surmounted by an acroterion, consisting of a palmette between two large volutes, which are for the most part restorations. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Capitals reverted to the volute type, transformed and refined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Small grains or beads of the same metals are often set in the eyes of volutes, on the junctions, or at intervals at which they will set off the wire-work effectively. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The term was applied in architecture to various forms of ornamentation taking the shape of a scroll, such as the volute of an Ionian capital. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It is composed of four books, treating of the practical use of geometrical instruments, and the drawing of volutes, Roman letters, and winding stairs; and is illustrated by numerous woodcuts. Dürer Artist-Biographies This being a column from an angle of the building, the volutes occur on two adjacent sides, so as to present themselves both to the east and north view. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The volute is a serpent with blue scales and serrated crest, enclosing a winged figure of St. Michael and a dragon studded with turquoises. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The frieze band of both lower and upper orders is profusely filled with ornament, while small cherubs in excellent scale replace the conventional volutes of the Corinthian capitals. Cathedrals of Spain In the painted ones the favorite idea for the interior is a series of volutes, in broad lines, radiating from the center of the basin. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 II., are most curious and pure examples of this condition; with experimental trefoils, roses, and leaves introduced between their volutes. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Roses are sculptured in the eyes of the volutes. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Their capitals are very boldly undercut, and bear distinct traces of Romanesque influence; indeed, the volutes of the cap on the west side give it almost the appearance of a very freely-carved Corinthian capital. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The mosaic pavement stretches its discs and volutes of porphyry and serpentine or yellowed Parian marble, a tarnished and uneven carpet, to the greenish-white marble steps of the chancel. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Two of them are queer, rough things, with brackets at the angles in place of volutes, and a deep abacus sloping back, with a cross upon it. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia These volutes again may have supported double bulls, which would make the total height of the columns the same as those of the east and west porticoes. Architecture Classic and Early Christian Pentelic marble; width from centre of volute to centre of volute, 12¾ inches. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z He plunged his gaze into its tinted steamy volutes, and struggled with it until it parted and fell away from him like the sound of falling waters. Melomaniacs 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. Portuguese Architecture The curious Dalmatian square-leaf enrichment, channelled in six radiating stri�, and terminating in a small volute at the top corner occurs here. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The capitals are of the 'Pseudo-Ionic' type, with roughly cut Ionic volutes. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture In the eye of this volute a rose is sculptured in relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Look at the huge volutes of those clouds. Rosinante to the Road Again 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. Portuguese Architecture The nave caps are debased Corinthian, with ornamented volutes and one row of flat acanthus-leaves, the abacus being square. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia That of the volutes is my first business. Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. The earliest Attic examples are also surmounted by a simple ornament, especially the palmette between volutes, partly in relief, and partly in colour. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z There is no form of the volute known to the architect which may not be found in the rocks, but there are many forms in the rocks unknown to the architect. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The former consisted of two volutes between which appeared a vertical point resembling one of the angles of a triangle. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 This feature is 20 in. wide, with a waving stem with volutes and leaves of ivy occupying the central 12 in., black and grey on white. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The very fine, long, and glossy hair of the women is rolled jauntily on the top of the head in a loose spiral coil, resembling the volutes of a shell. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The early Corinthian capital of the single column of the Temple at Phigaleia appears to be copied from a stel� with volutes and an acanthus. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Thus the interior of the peg-box will be found a convenient position from which to build a support that shall reach up underneath the volute or under turn of the scroll. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. The origin of the forms employed in stone buildings is most clearly shewn by the frequent occurrence of the volute, a curvilinear element suggested by the use and peculiar properties of metal. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 In them will be noticed the Orientalism that occasionally prevails, and shows its Byzantine parentage; a trace of the Greek volute and acanthus leaf is visible in Figs. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture Broken pediments with volute terminals were placed over doors and windows; while a slight admixture of wrought and moulded bricks was often added to give some degree of elegance and richness to the façades. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 A slightly curved piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished off by a volute turning outwards, contrary to the fiddle-head. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. This mistake is often seen to have been committed in very valuable instruments, especially such as have the two grooves deeply modelled, or the contour downwards from the volutes is much indented. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. Their favourite motive seems to have been the volute, to which, however, they gave an endless variety. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture, one of the volutes, apparently, of an Ionic capital. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Recurring Line and Form The everlastingly recurring egg and dart moulding and the volute are instances of the harmonious effect of very simple arrangements of recurring line and form. Line and Form (1900) The capitals have the larger scrolls or volutes of the Ionic above the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian proper. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The dawn appears at last; and, like the uplifted curtains of a tabernacle, golden clouds, wreathing themselves into large volutes, reveal the sky. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul Under the volutes three rings, or astragali, may be seen. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Any kind of man, beast, or bird, it has been said, can put himself into such a posture as to make an Ionic volute. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine By these means certain primitive types of ornament are evolved, such as the Greek volute and the Greek key or fret, the logical ornament of a logical people. Line and Form (1900) You may be steeped to the lips in that temperament, and yet not be able to arrange flowers with deftness, draw a volute, or strike a true chord. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly We carefully pare off the volutes and spikelets. The Scalp Hunters 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. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 A crude anticipation of the volute is found in Phoenician work, and it also appears on a Hittite relief at Boghaz Keui in the middle of Asia Minor. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It is most probable that those remaining are not the true capitals, inasmuch as they have no volutes. Byeways in Palestine The volutes and knots with which the worshippers of Woden ornamented their fibulæ, their arms, the prows of their ships, are reproduced in purple and azure, in the initials of the Gospels. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance There can be no doubt that the symbolism of the Mycenæan spiral and the volute is closely related to the octopus. The Evolution of the Dragon 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. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Rudimentary anticipations of the Ionic volute are found in Phoenician capitals, vague reminiscences of what the traders had seen in Egypt and elsewhere. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield To illustrate: The Ionic has, as one feature, two scroll-like ornaments, called volutes, and it has more moldings and is much more slenderp. The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Some of the magnificent volute shells were employed as baskets; while gigantic helmet shells, suspended by ratan handles, formed the vessels in which fresh water was brought from house to house. In the Eastern Seas In many ways it was a factor in the development of such artistic designs as the spiral and the volute, and not improbably also of the swastika. The Evolution of the Dragon The chesnut trees, which are numerous in this part of the Bourbonnois, in beauty at least, infinitely exceed the British oaks: they have a bossy foliage, which reminds one of the Corinthian volutes. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The axes of the volutes should not be thicker than the size of the eye, and the volutes themselves should be channelled out to a depth which is one twelfth of their height. The Ten Books on Architecture The abaci are square and moulded, while the caps proper carry at their angles rudely carved volutes such as occur in the White Tower, London. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The motives on the pilasters were of two kinds: the continuous scroll, starting from a strong base leaf and rising in equal volutes, with alternating direction to right and to left, and filling the panel. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 06, June 1895 Renaissance Panels from Perugia The lids are of a white sugary marble, the mouldings coarse and semicircular in section, and the volutes and circular endings of the lids are of a perfectly stupid design. Michael Angelo Buonarroti The interior red scagliola columns of the vestibule are in pairs, with white bases and capitals, the latter combining the lotus-leaf with the volute. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 The faces of the volutes must recede from the edge of the abacus inwards by one and a half eighteenths of that same amount. The Ten Books on Architecture They have crossed the Grand Canal, and roost and croon among the volutes of the Salute, or, in wild weather, wheel high and airly above its domes. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Another method was to use the single slighter bar for the foundation of the design, and welding on other volutes of similar thickness to make the scroll work associated with wrought iron. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance I doubt not that from this was evolved, in accordance with Professor Hartt's theory, the scroll or volute as it appears later on pottery. A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 Two hours passed, and he still sat watching the red beard of a compositor, and the crimson volutes of an ear. Mike Fletcher A Novel Then, of the nine and a half parts let one and a half be reserved for the height of the abacus, and let the other eight be used for the volutes. The Ten Books on Architecture There are, besides these, some small plain cockles, limpets; and some strangers, who come into the Sound, wore necklaces of a small blueish volute or panamæ. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 The French Gothic ivory croziers are perhaps more beautiful than others, the little figures Page 287 standing in the carved volutes being especially delicate and graceful. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance 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 Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 The light lay upon a red beard, a freckled neck, the crimson of the volutes of an ear. Mike Fletcher A Novel With the pointer Marion drew aimless little invisible volutes upon the map, connecting the two spruce cones with an imaginary scroll design. The Lookout Man There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done in elegant spiral volutes, and in the latter in straight lines, crossing each, other at right angles. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The columns were more slender and had a greater number of flutes and the capitals formed of scrolls or volutes were more ornamental. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today They have naturally, therefore, explained the analogy above noted by the inference that their ancestors, in painting the volute, had intended to symbolize the whirlwind by representing his tracks. A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 They are the outside layers of the pendulum of that graceful plant, the purple flower-cone that hangs at the end of the fruit cluster with its volute and royal-hued stem. White Shadows in the South Seas From the foundation to the first story are Ionic columns with volutes, then from the base of the tower to the summit are Corinthian columns with acanthus leaves. Là-bas When the uncontrolled use of curves approaching the circle and volute are indulged in, unrestrained by the steadying influence of any straight lines, the effect is gross. The Practice and Science of Drawing 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. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 The Ionic capital, belonging to a more feminine style, exhibits the abacus subordinated to that beautiful cushion-shaped member with its two spirally marked volutes. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture A fret is a series of highly conventionalized spirals: translate it from angular to curved and we have the wave-band; isolate it and we have the volute. Architecture and Democracy Nothing but masks, statues, foliage, volutes, reliefs, figures large and small, medallions with inscriptions. The Man Who Laughs Their black shiny hair, like liquorice, was arranged in fantastic volutes, which were adorned with silver bell-like ornaments and paper flowers. Kimono The capitals of the columns want the gracefulness of the Corinthian, and the volutes are but puny illustrations of that beautiful order. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 Houses, whose gables are denticulated or else curved in volutes, throw out successive overhanging stories, each composed of a row of windows, or, more properly, of one window divided into sections by carved uprights. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 The pier-capitals exhibit great variety of carving, some having rough volutes of a classical type, whilst several of the arches have the "tooth" ornament. Somerset Examine the volute: this is the nearest approach to a mathematical result that can be found in Grecian architecture; yet this very approximation is one of the greatest triumphs of Art. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator He also complained that "the place for the sublime in his head was very much narrowed by the innumerable volutes and monuments which the temple shut up therein at the same time with itself." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "My good woman, that dress has been described, to the last stilted arch and Colonial volute, in every newspaper in the United States!" The Case of Jennie Brice Mr. Bynoe saw one in Tierra del Fuego eating a cuttle-fish; and at Low's Harbour, another was killed in the act of carrying to its hole a large volute shell. The Voyage of the Beagle It consisted of a disk of paper, the indentations being formed in a volute spiral, exactly as in the disk phonograph to-day. Edison, His Life and Inventions Follow one of these volutes with your eye from its centre outwards, taking all its congeries of lines into companionship; you find your sympathies at once strangely engaged. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section R Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L In later examples the abacus is square, except where there are angle volutes, when it is slightly curved over the same. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The electric light flooded everything; it was shed from four unpolished globes half sunk in the volutes of the ceiling. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The scallop frequently occurs, and also the volute, which was copied from the work of Roman builders, who themselves imitated the Greek sculptures. English Villages In the Ionic style, the column has a distinct base, is more tall and slender, and its capital has two volutes, or spiral moldings. Outline of Universal History In children the relative number of volute and conical striæ indicate their future. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 In the Roman and Renaissance Ionic capital, the abacus is square with a fillet On the top of an ogee moulding, but curved over angle volutes. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Her brown hair seemed ever scathed and crinkled afresh by the ethereal flame that here and there peeped from amid the unwilling volute rolled back from her creamy forehead in a rebellious coronet. Mary Marston The beautifully carved capital swells outward into two spiral rolls, the ends of which are curled under to form the "volutes." Early European History Overhead and around us the same evanescent frescoes, under foot the same scagliola volutes, unrolled themselves interminably. Crucial Instances "If there are nine volutes," says a proverb, "to one conical, the boy will attain distinction without toil." Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 The sculptured part is about sixty feet high by sixty in breadth, and represents a solid wall with two pilasters at the ends, upholding an architrave and pediment, which is surmounted by two large volutes. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain He catalogued its volutes, its stipples, the frisks and curlings of its pattern. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The Ionic column is characterized by the spiral volutes of the capital. General History for Colleges and High Schools It is evident that if the volute were only continued long enough it must inevitably end in finding any trail, if the point of departure be only known. Algonquin Legends of New England It is called taking the "whelk striæ," the fusiform being called "rice baskets," and the volutes "peck measures." Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 The part connecting the volutes is slightly hollowed, and the channel thus formed is continued into the volutes. A History of Greek Art At other times it stood abandoned, cobwebs curtaining the narrow windows, farm tools leaning against the walls, and the dust deep on the sea-gods and acanthus volutes of the altar. The Valley of Decision Still more the brake on the woodside, whether in late autumn, when its withered haulm helps out the well-remembered woodland scent, or in spring, when it is thrusting its volutes through last year's waste. Hopes and Fears for Art From the vital ovoids ran a pattern of sparkling threads, irised and brilliant as floss of molten jewels; converging with interfacings of spirals, of volutes and of triangles into the nucleus. The Metal Monster In the army everywhere, when the description of a person is written down, the relative number of volutes and coniferous finger-tips is noted. Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 In the good period the portion of this member which connects the volutes is bounded below by a depressed curve, graceful and vigorous. A History of Greek Art Odo advanced, picking his way among broken ploughshares and stacks of maize, till he stood near the old marble altar, with its sea-gods and acanthus volutes. The Valley of Decision I should have admired the nascent creature that turns, slowly turns in the orb of its egg and describes a volute, the draft, perhaps, of the future shell. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Although with the Mollusca sexual selection does not seem to have come into play; yet many univalve and bivalve shells, such as volutes, cones, scallops, etc., are beautifully coloured and shaped. The Descent of Man Were the beautiful volute and cone shells of the Eocene epoch, and the gracefully sculptured ammonites of the Secondary period, created that man might ages afterwards admire them in his cabinet? The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition It is a volute to which the brain conceives no limits. The Life of the Spider Peristyles reached to pediments; volutes were displayed through colonnades; granite walls supported tile partitions; the whole mounting, half-hidden, the one above the other in a marvellous and incomprehensible fashion. Salammbo Lansing stood leaning in the embrasure of the window, his eyes fixed on the mosaic volutes of the floor. The Glimpses of the Moon 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. The Life of the Spider The Epeira complies to the best of her ability with this law of the endless volute. The Life of the Spider The spherical shells, those whirled into a volute, are no exception to this rule. The Life of the Spider |
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