An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 250
)receding anopera, &c. Ovile, R. Literally, a sheep-fold, and thencean enclosure in the Campus Martius in which each century assembled before proceeding toplace its votes {tabella) in the urn {cisla). Itwas divided into compartments approachedthrough narrow passages caWed pontes oxpo7iticuli.On… … Fig. 513. Ovolo or Quarter-round. Ovolo, Arch, (from the Latin ovum), (i) Aconvex moulding showing the quarter of a circle,
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