单词 | entasis |
例句 | The ancient Greeks made their columns bulge out slightly about a third of the way up to correct for the optical illusion of concavity — a technique known as entasis. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope This outward curvature of the profile is termed an entasis and in the Parthenon column, which is thirty-four feet in height, amounted to about three-fourths of an inch. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The entasis is almost invariably introduced in the spires of English churches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The columns diminished at the top to about one-fifth of the lower diameter, and would seem to have had an entasis, as the lower portion up to one-third of the height is nearly vertical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The columns, which are of Curzola marble, belong to the earlier building, though the entasis shows that classical feeling was beginning to affect even architects who worked in Gothic. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia This is called the entasis of the spire, and belongs to the study of optics in architecture. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them This, the most pleasing of all the renaissance cloisters in Portugal, has four arches on each side resting on fluted columns which though taller than usual in cloisters, have no entasis. Portuguese Architecture The entasis of columns and curvature of what would ordinarily be straight lines is familiar to all students of architecture. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 08, August 1895 Fragments of Greek Detail This peculiarity is a convexity, or entasis, as it is called, on the inner faces. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Sometimes they would give it, with exaggerated refinement, the entasis of the Greek column. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Where the spire has no entasis the same effect is produced by the introduction of small projecting gables, bands of carving, or a little coronal of pinnacles. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them A column of the Parthenon, with its inclination, its tapering, its entasis, and its fluting, could not have been constructed without the most conscientious skill. A History of Greek Art This addition to the form of a truncated cone is the entasis. A History of Greek Art And they are an illustration of what was a marked characteristic of all classic architecture, which shows a slight curvature or entasis in its long lines. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood In some early Doric temples, as the one at Assos in Asia Minor, there is no entasis. A History of Greek Art |
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