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Definition of Triglyphs
1. triglyph [n] - See also: triglyph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triglyphs
Literary usage of Triglyphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The metope, or space between the triglyphs, has been enriched in many different
ways. The ox's scull was employed for this purpose by Palladio, ..."
2. Discourses on Architecture by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1875)
"The spaces (metopes) left between the triglyphs in the frieze were usually filled
each with a square slab on edge, as we have already said, sculptured with ..."
3. Discourses on Architecture by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1875)
"The spaces (metopes) left between the triglyphs in the frieze were usually filled
each with a square slab on edge, as we have already said, sculptured with ..."
4. Foreign Topography; Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1828)
"The method in placing the triglyphs immediately over the axes of the angular
columns is peculiar to the Romans, who with scarcely a single exception, ..."
5. Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the by Heinrich Schliemann (1875)
"... Athena — Supposed ili'bris of that temple — Drain belonging to it — 1 )oric
style of the temple proved by the block of triglyphs — Temple of Apollo also ..."
6. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"began to employ, in Doric buildings, the device of triglyphs and the metopes
between the beams. 3. Later, others in other buildings allowed ..."
7. Ornamental Concrete Without Molds: A Practical Treatise Explanatory of a by Albert Allison Houghton (1910)
"DENTILS The addition of dentils and triglyphs to the Doric and Ionic orders,
after the cornice has been molded with the template is fully explained in Fig. ..."
8. Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture by William Henry Goodyear (1912)
"116, as regards the southern half of the east front. It appears from these
measurements (and from Fig. 116) that, whereas the angle triglyphs are ..."
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