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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)

Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 190

An illustration from A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture, 1905, leaf 190 — Ovolo (Ital.), a con-vex moulding muchused in Classical archi-tecture ; in the Banianexamples it is usuallyan exact quarter of acircle, but in the Gre-cian it is natter, and ismost commonly quirkedat the top : in middle-age architecture it isnot extensively em-ployed ; it is seldomfound in any but… … Grecian OtuIh, quirk*). Temple at CotlnUl. OtEESTOBY, the clearstory or upper story. i«4 Pane, an old term formerly used in reference to variousparts of buildings, such as the sides of a tower, turret,spire, &c, which were said to be of four, eight, &c, panes,according to the number of…

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