Lesson 7 : Exterior And Interior Wall Ornamentation
Pediment
A pediment a triangular gable crowning a portico or facade. The pediment was the crowning feature of the Greek temple front. The pediment's triangular wall surface, or tympanum, was often decorated with sculpture. The Romans adapted the pediment as a purely decorative form to finish doors, windows, and niches, sometimes using a series of alternating triangular and segmentally curved pediments, a motif revived in the Italian High Renaissance. Baroque-era designers developed many varieties of broken, scrolled, and reverse-curved pediments.
Entablature refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals in building exterior. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave, the supporting member carried from column to column, pier or wall immediately above, the frieze, and the cornice, the projecting member below the pediment .
Participants