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In 1914 the interior was greatly enhanced through the paintings, executives and faux marble columns made by the painter Toussaint-Xénophon Renaud. In 1921, the cemetery was embellished with an angel of the resurrection of Louis Jobin.
The large columns at Persepolis have as many as 40 or 48 flutes, with smaller columns elsewhere 32; the width of a flute is kept fairly constant, so the number of flutes increases with the girth of the column, in contrast to the Greek practice of keeping the number of flutes on a column constant and varying the width of the flute. [15]
Two decorative Corinthian pilasters in the Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris). In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.
The interior, with its Late Baroque decorations of stucco and faux marble with composite motifs of garlands, foliage, shells, etc., contrasts with the layout of the façade. [3] They are the work of the Swiss sculptor François Antoine Peri . [12] The church also contains paintings by Gaspar de Crayer, Joseph van Severdonck and Charles de Groux.
Marbleizing (also spelt marbleising [1]) or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble.It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive.
A colonnette is a small slender column, [1] usually decorative, which supports a beam or lintel.Colonnettes have also been used to refer to a feature of furnishings such as a dressing table and case clock, [2] [3] and even studied by archeologists in Roman ceramics. [4]
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