metopes

• It has two chambers and a facade with sculptures, metopes and paintings, similar to a Doric temple. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• On the various pilasters of the upper terrace are the metopes, with singular sculptures. —  Diary in America, Series Two
• It had fifty statues, one hundred Doric columns, ninety-two metopes, and five hundred and twenty-four feet of bas-relief frieze, thus realizing the highest dream of plastic art and the immortality of constructive genius. —  A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
• On the metopes was sculptured the battle of the Centaurs with the Lapithć; and the frieze contained a representation of the Panathenaic festivals. —  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
• This is not because it is unlovely in appearance or origin or dignity of form, but because the arrangement of the triglyphs and metopes (lacunaria) is an embarrassment and inconvenience to the work 2. —  The Ten Books on Architecture

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