See also:RUSTICATION (i.e. the making " rustic " or countrified, from See also:Lat. rus, See also:country; thus the See also:term " rusticate " is used for taking a country See also:holiday, or in See also:academic circles to be " rusticated " is to be sent away from a university for See also:punishment)
, in See also:architecture, the technical See also:term (See also:French See also:equivalent bossage) given to See also:masonry in which the centre See also:part of the See also:face of the 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 is either See also:left rough as it came from the See also:quarry, or is worked in various ways to give variety to the See also:surface
.
The earliest example exists in the See also:platform at See also:Pasargadae in See also:Persia (56o B.C.), erected by See also:Cyrus, where the edge See also:round the four sides of the stone forms a draft, two or three inches wide, worked with a See also:chisel, the centre
part being left rough
.
Similar See also:work• exists at Arak-el-Emir in See also:Palestine (151 B.C.), The finest examples are those of the walls of the See also:temple at See also:Jerusalem, and at See also:Hebron, where the stones are of immense See also:size and the See also:rustication projects sometimes over a See also:foot
.
The Crusaders' castles in Palestine are all boldly rusticated, but the projecting portions have been worked over with a chisel in See also:diagonal lines, and this enables them to be distinguished from the earlier masonry
.
In the five-sided See also:tower at See also:Nuremberg and the See also:Burg-Capelle at Rothenburg, the rustication has a decorative value, so that in later work it was employed for the quoin-stones of towers
.
The masonry of the Palazzo Vecchio, and of the Pitti, See also:Strozzi and Riccardi palaces, all in See also:Florence, and of other palaces in See also:Siena and See also:Volterra, is rusticated
.
Rustication was employed in terraces and grottos in " "See also:Italy, where on See also:account of its extravagances it gave rise to the term " See also:grotesque." In the later See also:Renaissance the edges of the stone were bevelled off, with a sunk See also:joint in addition; and the treatment was known as vermiculated, if in See also:imitation of See also:earth burrowed by See also:worms; marine, if with small See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell holes; stalactitic, if carved in imitation of See also:lime deposits, &c
.
In Italy the projecting portions were sometimes worked into facets
.
Rustication was introduced into See also:England by Inigo See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones, who, in old See also:Somerset See also:House, See also:York Stairs Watergate, the gateway of the Botanical See also:Garden at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and elsewhere, used it only in alternate courses, his example being followed by other architects of the Renaissance
.
The term is now applied to the See also:ashlar blocks of masonry which alternate with the circular drums of columns in many public buildings
.
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