lintel

Examples of lintel in the following topics:

• Post-and-Lintel Construction

  • Post-and-lintel, or trabeated architecture, is a simple construction method using a header (lintel) as the horizontal member supported at its ends by two vertical columns or pillars (posts).
  • The biggest disadvantage of the post-and-lintel system is the limited amount of weight that it can support.
  • There are two main force vectors at work in the post-and-lintel system.
  • The first is where the lintel meets the post, which compresses the columns.
  • This image shows an example of a modern use of post-and-lintel using aluminum concrete framework.

• Mycenaean Architecture

  • A typical post and lintel structure is not strong enough to support the heavy structures built above it.
  • Therefore, a corbeled (or corbel) arch is employed over doorways to relieve the weight on the lintel.
  • The gate is famous for its use of the relieving arch, a corbeled arch that leaves an opening and lightens the weight carried by the lintel.
  • The tombs are entered through a narrow passageway known as a dromos and a post-and-lintel doorway topped by a relieving triangle.
  • The Lion Gate is famous for its use of the relieving arch, a corbeled arch that leaves an opening and lightens the weight carried by the lintel.

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • Behind the façade of Temple A sat a doorway with an intricately designed lintel.
  • Between each group sits a plain rectangular recess, probably to mark the location of the central column that supported the lintel.
  • Like the free-standing sculptures of the Orientalizing period, each figure on the lintel of Temple A wears Egyptian-style headgear with geometric patterns and cloaks atop their geometrically patterned dresses, which are cinched at the waist.

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • It is most easily recognized by its capital, which appears as a circular cushion placed on top of a column onto which a lintel rests.
  • The architrave is composed of stone lintels that span the space between columns.
  • The triglyps are located above the center of each capital and the center of each lintel.

• Renaissance Architecture

  • Windows may be paired and set within a semicircular arch and may have square lintels and triangular or segmental pediments, which are often used alternately.
  • The Palazzo Farnese in Rome demonstrates the Renaissance window's particular use of square lintels and triangular and segmental pediments used alternatively.

• Stelae of the Middle Kingdom

  • They also served as doorway lintels as early as the third millennium BCE, most famously decorating the home of Old Kingdom architect Hemon.

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • The West façade of Saint-Lazare contains the tympanum (1130–1135), signed Gislebertus hoc fecit (meaning "Gislebertus made this") within the portico, which is ranked among the masterpieces of Romanesque sculpture in France The sheer size of the tympanum required it to be supported by double lintels, with a middle column to further support the sculpture.

• Renaissance Architecture in Florence

  • They also made considerable use of classical antique features such as orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters, lintels, semicircular arches, and hemispherical domes.

• Renaissance Architecture in Rome

  • The Palazzo Farnese in Rome demonstrates the Renaissance window's particular use of square lintels and triangular and segmental pediments used alternatively.

• Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters, and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches, and aedicules, replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval buildings.