Frieze
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cornice. A frieze can be found on many Greek and Roman buildings, the Parthenon Frieze being the most famous, and perhaps the most elaborate.[1][2]
In interiors, the frieze of a room is the section of wall above the
picture rail and under the crown moldings or cornice. By extension, a frieze is a long stretch of painted, sculpted or even calligraphic decoration in such a position, normally above eye-level. Frieze decorations may depict scenes in a sequence of discrete panels. The material of which the frieze is made of may be plasterwork, carved wood or other decorative medium.[3]
More loosely, "frieze" is sometimes used for any continuous horizontal strip of decoration on a wall, containing figurative or ornamental motifs. In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal Tower of the Winds in the Roman agora at Athens bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze.
A pulvinated frieze (or pulvino) is convex in section. Such friezes were features of 17th-century Northern Mannerism, especially in subsidiary friezes, and much employed in interior architecture and in furniture.
The concept of a frieze has been generalized in the
frieze patterns
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Achaemenid friezes
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Achaemenid Lotus and Palmette scroll -
Achaemenid frieze designs at Persepolis.
Greek friezes
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Erechtheum (Athens), 421–406 BCE -
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Frieze fromcalyxes
Indian friezes
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Frieze of the lost capital of the Allahabad pillar, with two lotuses framing a "flame palmette" surrounded by small rosette flowers, 3rd BCE -
Rampurva bull capital, detail of the abacus, with two "flame palmettes"framing a lotus surrounded by small rosette flowers, 3rd BCE -
Frieze of the Sankissa elephant, 3rd century BCE
References
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- ^ Cotterill, Henry Bernard (1913). Ancient Greece: A Sketch of Its Art, Literature & Philosophy Viewed in Connexion with Its External History from Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great. George G. Harrap & Company.
- ^ "Parthenon Frieze". www.mcah.columbia.edu. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
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- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
