- A
cavetto is a
concave moulding with a
regular curved profile that is part of a circle,
widely used in
architecture as well as furniture,
picture frames...
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cavetto mouldings as a cornice, with only a
short fillet (plain
vertical face) above, and a
torus moulding (convex semi-circle) below. This
cavetto cornice...
- centre, or
surrounded by
compound mouldings decorated with
floral motifs Cavetto: (in Italian)
cavare ("to hollow"): Concave, quarter-round
moulding sometimes...
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found in
cavetto or
hollow chamfering moldings,
which also
usually presents a quarter-round cross-section,
albeit concave.: 73
Ovolo and
cavetto elements...
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Convex moulding (usually a
quarter of a
circle in section)... [p. 222] /
cavetto moulding or
hollow chamfering (Latin, cavare, to hollow). One of the prin****l...
- John Summerson, p.47 "Anta"
entry [1] "These flat,
splaying members with
cavetto sides, have a long
history in Gr****
architecture as anta capitals, and...
-
Agamemnon at Mycenae, but here the
hypotrachelium projects forward with a
cavetto moulding, and is
carved with
triple leaves like the buds of a rose. In...
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Winged sun on a
cavetto from the
Medinet Habu
temple complex. The
winged sun
represents a form of the
falcon god Horus, son of Isis,
triumphant over his...
- round, square, chamfered, beveled, diamond-shaped, or
enclosed with a
cavetto or listel. Boss (architecture)
Bossage (architecture) in
France Glossary...
- round, square, chamfered, beveled, diamond-shaped, or
enclosed with a
cavetto or listel.
Boutant A type of support. An arc-boutant, or
flying buttress...
