inalveolate

English translation: (wall-)embedded columns

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Italian term or phrase:colonne inalveolate
English translation:(wall-)embedded columns
Entered by: Alessandra Renna

11:06 Oct 21, 2007
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Architecture
Italian term or phrase: inalveolate
"Inoltre, è degna di nota la festosa articolazione dell'atrio, ove a decorazioni tipicamente rocaille, si contrappone una plastica continuità spaziale determinata dalle colonne inalveolate presenti negli angoli"

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Lindsay Watts
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Local time: 04:19
(wall-)embedded columns
Explanation:
"The chancel arch has embedded columns with spherical bases and spherical capitals."
http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/arkinord/details.php?image_id=493
"Fin dalla remota antichità la c. assume anche valore decorativo, perdendo in tutto o in parte la funzione portante (c. addossata a pilastri o parete, inalveolate, pensili)."
http://www.ambientece.arti.beniculturali.it/soprintendenza/d...
"These doors were framed by visually powerful portals of horseshoe arches resting on jambs of twin embedded columns."
http://www.virtualani.org/tekor/index.htm
"alveolato, alveolo. colonna inalveolata"
http://www.artleo.it/alarte/einaudi/architettura/a.pdf
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colonne inalveolate
(wall-)embedded columns


Explanation:
"The chancel arch has embedded columns with spherical bases and spherical capitals."
http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/arkinord/details.php?image_id=493
"Fin dalla remota antichità la c. assume anche valore decorativo, perdendo in tutto o in parte la funzione portante (c. addossata a pilastri o parete, inalveolate, pensili)."
http://www.ambientece.arti.beniculturali.it/soprintendenza/d...
"These doors were framed by visually powerful portals of horseshoe arches resting on jambs of twin embedded columns."
http://www.virtualani.org/tekor/index.htm
"alveolato, alveolo. colonna inalveolata"
http://www.artleo.it/alarte/einaudi/architettura/a.pdf

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