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ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic See also:style ")  , an architectural See also:term given to the See also:masonry rising above the See also:main See also:cornice of a See also:building, the earliest example known being that of the See also:monument of Thrasyllus at See also:Athens . It was largely employed by the See also:Romans, who in their See also:arches of See also:triumph utilized it for See also:inscriptions or for bas-See also:relief See also:sculpture . It was used also to increase the height of enclosure walls such as those of the See also:Forum of See also:Nerva . By the See also:Italian revivalists it was utilized as a See also:complete See also:storey, pierced with windows, as found in See also:Palladio's See also:work at See also:Vicenza and in See also:Greenwich See also:hospital . The largest See also:attic in existence is that which surmounts the See also:entablature of St See also:Peter's at See also:Rome, which See also:measures 39 ft. in height . The term is also employed in See also:modern terminology to designate an upper storey in a roof, and the feature is sometimes introduced to hide a roof behind .

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