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Georgian Period
Irish georgian architecture vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adam style | 18th-century neo classical style of interior design, stucco and architecture, as practiced by the three Adam brothers from Scotland |
| Asymmetrical | Unbalanced |
| Cantilevered | a bracket for supporting a balcony or cornice |
| Capital | was often a stylized representation of natural forms, such as animal horns or plant leaves. |
| Portico | Porch with supporting columns |
| Classical Orders | Order of design, Ways of assembling supporting columns |
| Classical | relating or belonging to the ancient Greeks or Romans or their cultures, 5th-4th BC extends from a base at the bottom to a shaft in the middle and a capital at the top. |
| Colonnades | a row of columns, usually supporting a roof or arches |
| Column. | extends from a base at the bottom to a shaft in the middle and a capital at the top. |
| Compartmental | Partitioned space, usually part of something larger |
| Corinthian Capital | Ancient Greece reference, one of the five classical orders- slender, deep capital with a round bell decorated with leaves and a square abacus.two rows of leaves, sheaths and scrolls reminiscent of a goblet surrounded by leaves |
| Doric Capital | relating to or built in a style of architecture characterized by fluted columns with a rounded moulding at the top and no base |
| Elaborate | having many different parts or a lot of detail, and organized in a complicated way |
| Entablature | part of the building above the coloums, in classical architecture, the section of a structure that lies between the columns and the roof. The architrave (lowest part),the frieze (middle)and the cornice (top) part of the building above the coloums, in c |
| Facades | the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one. |
| Fanlight | a window over a door or another window, especially one having the form of a semicircle or of half an ellipse |
| Geometric | Shapes relating to a period of ancient Greek culture, between 900 and 700 bc, noted for its decorative use of simple lines and shapes, especially on pottery |
| High Relief | a version of relief sculpture in which the carving projects from the background to more than half its natural depth. |
| Ionic Capital | relating to or typical of the order of architecture characterized by fluted columns and capitals with spiral scroll-shaped ornaments, It's easy to recognize because of the two scrolls, called volutes, on its capital. The volutes may have been based on nau |
| Low Relief | sculpture in which the design projects slightly from a flat background, but without any part being totally detached from the background. |
| Motif | a repeated design, shape, or pattern |
| Mould | a container that gives a shape to a molten or liquid substance poured into it to harden |
| Neo Classical | Revival of classical art forms, characterized by the simple, symmetrical forms of ancient Greek and Roman art |
| Ornate | having elaborate or excessive decoration |
| Palladian | typical of or similar to the classical architectural style developed by Andrea Palladio in the 16th century |
| Pavilion | symmetrical structures at the end of wings attached to a main central block, in the classical styles. |
| Piazza | An arcade or covered walk or gallery, as around a public square or in front of a building |
| Pilaster | a shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column |
| Portico | Porch or entrance supported by columns |
| Proportion and Balance | Classical influence/ principles |
| Putti | Cherub style decoration |
| Rococo | a style of architecture and the decorative arts characterized by intricate ornamentation that was popular throughout Europe in the early 18th century, can include swirling ornaments |
| Stucco designs | Shells, garlands, Chinese Dragons and masks |
| Stucco | plaster used for surfacing interior or exterior walls, often used in association with classical mouldings. Often picked out with colour. |
| Stuccodores | Craftmen in Stucco/ plaster |
| Symmetrical | in which parts on either side of a central dividing line correspond to each other or are identical to each other |
| The Georgian Period | 1700’s-1800’s, a period of peace and prosperity |
| Typical window style | Rectangular multi pane windows |
| Uniformity | always the same in quality, degree, character, or manner |
| Pediment | A triangular area on the face of a building |
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