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A Classroom Frieze

A Classroom Frieze. Frieze:  The middle element layer of an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice. . The frieze may be plain or may be composed of bas-relief (sculpted figures and shallow- projecting images). Triglyphs and metopes also make up decorative elements.

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A Classroom Frieze

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  1. A Classroom Frieze

  2. Frieze: The middle element layer of an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice.  The frieze may be plain or may be composed of bas-relief (sculpted figures and shallow- projecting images). Triglyphs and metopes also make up decorative elements. If decorated, the frieze may depict a sequential narrative. Detail on front of Athenian Treasury

  3. Architectural Components • Tholos: A small, round building. Sometimes built underground, as in a Mycenaean tomb. • Relief Sculpture: An artwork where a modeled form is raised, or in sunken-relief lowered, from a flat background from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink). • Pediment: A triangular gable found over the narrow ends of buildings.  Formed by an entablature and the sloping roof or a raking cornice.  Decorated with sculpted figures, carved either freestanding or in relief. • Entablature: In Classical orders the horizontal elements above the columns and capitals, consisting of architrave, a frieze and a cornice. • Architrave: A module of masonry, supporting the superstructure running from the top of the column capitals.

  4. Construction of Friezes • It has been recognized that the Siphnian Treasury friezes would have played an important role in the initial development of the continuous narrative frieze.

  5. Tholos Temple of Athena Pronaia • Subject on the frieze is the Battle of the Amazons and the Centaurs

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