See also:DENTIL (from See also:Lat. See also:dens, a tooth)
, in See also:architecture, a small tooth-shaped See also:block used as a repeating See also:ornament in the See also:bed-See also:mould of a See also:cornice
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See also:Vitruvius (iv
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2) states that the See also:dentil represents the end of a See also:rafter (See also:asser); and since it occurs in its most pronounced See also:form in the Ionic temples of See also:Asia See also:Minor, the Lycian tombs and the porticoes and tombs of See also:Persia, where it represents distinctly the See also:reproduction in See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone of See also:timber construction, there is but little doubt as to its origin
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The earliest example is that found on the See also:tomb of See also:Darius, c
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500 B.C., cut in the See also:rock in which the See also:portico of his See also:palace is reproduced
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Its first employment in See also:Athens is in the cornice of the caryatid portico or See also:tribune of the See also:Erechtheum (48o B.C.)
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When subsequently introduced into the bed-mould of the cornice of the choragic See also:monument of Lysicrates it is much smaller in its dimensions
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In the later temples of See also:Ionia, as in the See also:temple of See also:Priene, the larger See also:scale of the dentil is still retained
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As a See also:general See also:rule the See also:projection of the dentil is equal to its width, and the intervals between to See also:half the width
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In some cases the projecting See also:band has never had the sinkings cut into it to See also:divide up the dentils, as in the See also:Pantheon at See also:Rome, and it is then called a dentil-band
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The dentil was the See also:chief decorative feature employed in the bed-mould by the See also:Romans and the See also:Italian Revivalists
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In the See also:porch of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:John Studius at See also:Constantinople, the dentil and the See also:interval between are equal in width, and the interval is splayed back from See also:top to bottom; this is the form it takes in what is known as the " Venetian dentil," which was copied from the See also:Byzantine dentil in See also:Santa See also:Sophia, Constantinople
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There, however, it no longer formed See also:part of a bed-mould: its use at Santa Sophia was to decorate the projecting moulding enclosing the encrusted See also:marbles, and the dentils were cut alternately on both sides of the moulding
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The Venetian dentil was also introduced as a See also:label See also:round See also:arches and as a See also:string course
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