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299: 197: 252: 284: 268: 49: 236: 224: 212: 344: 409: 31: 161:, the earlier uses the first method, the later the second. There may be some variation in design within a single structure to allow for corner contraction, an adjustment of the column spacing and arrangement of the Doric frieze in a temple to make the design appear more harmonious. In the evolution of the Doric order, the placing of the triglyphs 140:) preserved this feature, as well as many other features common in original wooden buildings, as a tribute to the origins of architecture and its role in the history and development of man. The channels could also have a function in channeling rainwater. 298: 251: 148:
In terms of structure, a triglyph may be carved from a single block with a metope, or the triglyph block may have slots cut into it to allow a separately cut metope (in stone or wood) to be slid into place, as at the
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In post-Renaissance architecture the strict conventions are sometimes abandoned, and guttae and triglyphs, alone or together, may be used somewhat randomly as ornaments. For example, the Baroque
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of buildings using the Doric order. The absence of the pair effectively converts a building from being in the Doric order to being in the
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writers. The wooden beams were notched in three separate places in order to cast their rough-cut ends mostly in shadow.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Triglyph blocks with slots for the insertion of metopes in the Marmaria at Delphi.
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Triglyphs (slotted for the insertion of metopes) in the Doric frieze of the
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Vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze in classical architecture
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in Greek. In the strict tradition of classical architecture, a set of
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is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the
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in Athens, showing Doric frieze with triglyphs and sculpted metopes.
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representation in stone of the wooden beam ends of the typical
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A metope (L) and triglyph (R) cut from one block from Stratos.
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The triglyph is largely thought to be a tectonic and
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Index

Triglyphs

Doric order
Theater of Marcellus

John Wood
The Circus
Bath, Somerset
metopes
Doric
frieze
classical architecture
glyphs
metopes
guttae
entablatures
Tuscan order
skeuomorphic
primitive hut
Vitruvius
Renaissance
Greek architecture
Roman architecture
Temple of Aphaea
Foce del Sele
National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
evolved somewhat
Černín Palace
Prague
Ionic order

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