Abaco: Piece in the shape of slat that is located on the equine one and finishes off the capital.
Apse: Part of the church placed in the head. It can have semicircular or polygonal plant. Often it is covered by ovenproof vault.
Academician: Who abides by considered norms like classic. It is said, also of the works correct and canonical, but lacking in inspiration or that repeat without creativity topics and traditional norms.
Acanthus: It plants with whose sculpted sheets were adorning the Corinthian and compound capitals, and sometimes some frames.
Acrótera: Ornament that finishes off the apexes of a pediment. It has form of cane.
Adobe: Mass of clay or clayish ground often mixed with straw dried to the sun and without cooking. It is used like building material.
Alfiz: Frame highlighted in the wall that, in the Arab architecture, frames the arches of doors and windows.
Tiled: Embellishment consisting of a revetment of floor tiles of polygonal or starred form, monochrome or decorated.
Padded: Ornament constituted by ashlars which rims are re-sunk in relation to the faces.
Alveolate: To see enamel.
Elevation: Representation without perspective of a building as a vertical plane perpendicular to the base of the above mentioned building.
Antefija: Embellishment in the shape of cane head placed in the rim of the tile do to conceal the end of a tier of tiles.
Aparejo:Forma in that there get ready the elements used in the construction of the wall.
Applied, arts: To see Decorative arts.
Arabesque: Embellishment by means of complex interlaced geometric drawings.
Flying buttress: Exterior arch that describes a quarter of circumference and whose mission is that of resisting the propulsions of the vaults of the ships of a building.
Arch: Element sustentante destined to liberate a more or less big space by means of a generally curved trajectory. The constitutive elements of the arch are: > The voussoirs or pieces in the shape of wedge which low surface gets the name of intradós for contrast to the top surface that is named a backfill or extradós. > The key or central voussoir of the arches. > The salmeres or voussoirs of the ends of the arch. > The kidneys or part delimited by the first one and the second third of the arrow of the arch. > The thread or space understood between the backfill and in intradós of the arch. The projecting frame that usually exists under the salmeres and in which the jambs are finished off in the fascia. The way of being ready the voussoirs is the quartering of the arch that is radial when the above mentioned voussoirs continue the radioes of the same center or enjarjado when they get ready horizontally up to a certain height. The most usual types of arches are:
Armor: In architecture, structure of iron or wood destined to support or to reinforce a construction. The parhilera Armor is that that consists of a series of beams or pairs arranged obliquely whose low ends support straight on the wall or on other beams called crossbeams. The head of the pairs supports in a top horizontal beam, called tier that forms the angle of the covering, necessary to two waters. To resist the excessive propulsion towards the wings, there are placed often a few transverse pieces, called suspenders.
Arquería:Hilera of arches.
Archivolt: Frontal face of an arch when it is decorated. In plural archivolts are one with together of arches that form a front especially Romanesque or Gothic.
Artesonado:Techo of wood to the overdraft in the shape of inverted trough.
Ataurique: vegetable decoration stylized, inspired in to the acanthus classic and much used in the art califal of Cordoba.
Avispero:Técnica of sculpture with which there are obtained works of meticulous execution and retailer by means of the employment of the trephine.
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