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2. Tympanum (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s. A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. [1]

3. Emphasize Your Bay Windows With These Charming Design Ideas - AOL

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   Hang Artwork. While these light gray, semi-transparent Roman shades emphasize the accent colors of green, black, and yellow in this kitchen window, it's the eye-catching artwork that steals the show.

4. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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   Eastlake ornamentation can be seen in the bays, gables, windows, frieze, and porch. The entrance is decorated with spools, sunbursts, holes, buttons, brackets, scallops, and pierced cylinders, and is supported by large chamfered columns. The glass planes of the recessed double doors are decorated with panels above and below.

5. Cornice - Wikipedia

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   Illustrations of cornices in different styles Illustrations of various examples of ancient Egyptian cornices, all of them having cavettos. In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge" [1]) is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or ...

6. Frontispiece (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The classical decor above the entrance of Hengrave Hall depicts the dense ornaments used in a frontispiece designed in the Early Renaissance Era. The Main Entrance of Sutton Place, Surrey shows the introduction of Renaissance ideas in English building design. The decorative elements on the façade made of moulded terracotta was a distinctive ...

7. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   They were constructed with tall doors, high ceilings, with steep turret roofs to redirect hot air above its inhabitable rooms, along with a cross-breeze of louvered shutter windows on all sides instead of glass to offset the most scorching of days, flexible timber frames with the innate ability to weather some of the toughest storms and tremors ...