architrave
(noun)
the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns
Examples of architrave in the following topics:
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Rome
- Massive buildings soon followed, with great pillars that supported broad arches and domes, rather than dense lines of thin columns suspending flat architraves.
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Hatshepsut
- The temple has an architrave with a long dedicatory text bearing Hatshepsut's famous denunciation of the Hyksos, who had led Egypt into a cultural decline prior to her rule.
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Renaissance Architecture
- The orders can either be structural, supporting an arcade or architrave, or purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters.
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Renaissance Architecture in Rome
- Michelangelo revised the central window in 1541, adding an architrave to give a central focus to the facade, above which is the largest papal stemma, or coat-of-arms with papal tiara, Rome had ever seen.
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Roman Architecture under the Republic
- Its original roof and architrave are now lost.