entablature

• “On the entablature is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who inaugurated Sir Richard Gresham's structure -- the centre figure of a number of others emblematic of the all-embracing commerce of this country, and surmounted by the words: 'The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852

• “Pl. LXVI -- the lower drawing on the right hand side -- the sarcophagus is shown between the columns, and above the entablature is a plinth on which the horse stands.”

  The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

• “The medallion of Pierre Corneille is sculptured on the entablature which is supported by these columns, and on each side of the medallion, we perceive Melpomene with a dagger, and Thalia with a mask.”

  Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers

• “The south facade is a curiously flat and blocky affair, only partly leavened by the awkward, two-bay, single-column upper arcade, the unsatisfactorily cinched lower entablature, the four eccentric little ground-floor windows, and the raised platform supporting it all.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice.”

  The Guardian: Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders

• “Essentially, the orders determine the shape, proportion and decoration of the basic architectural elements: the vertical, supporting column (with its base, shaft and capital) and the horizontal, supported entablature (divided into three registers, from bottom to top: the architrave, frieze and cornice).”

  The Guardian: Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders

• “The result, now standing in the St. Mary's Chapel Field, is a tall chapel of handmade red brick, with a cream-colored Baroque "Tuscan" facade decorated with classical features, including pilasters, entablature and a round central window.”

  Theorized Reconstruction of a 17th Century Jesuit Church in America

• “When Pelli started 40 years ago, the Blue Building was to be a standalone -- a huge entablature unto itself.”

  The Huffington Post: J. Michael Welton: Cesar Pelli's California Cathedrals

• “Here Mr. Stroik has successfully orchestrated a hierarchy of scales in form and space that includes the majestic crossing and apse; the great piers supporting the dome; the pilasters carrying a massive, uninterrupted entablature; the gorgeous baldachin looming over the main altar — and so on down the line.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Return to Grace

• “River Architects Inside, the nave and sanctuary of the building feature a majestic crossing and apse, great piers supporting the dome and gold-and-silver tinted pilasters supporting a massive, uninterrupted entablature.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Holy Architecture

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