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stylobate  stylobate 1. Strictly, the single top course of the three steps of the crepidoma upon which the Stylobate in ancient Greek temples, the upper surface of a stereobate on which a colonnade stands. Sometimes the entire upper step of a stereobate is called the stylobate. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | In his effort to "overcome the inertness of stone architecture and make the building appear as a vital animate thing," Lewis writes, Furness employed "the whole repertoire of expressive Greek devices-column contraction, supple moldings, stylobate curvature, and, above all, entasis. Every horizontal line of stylobate and entablature was curved upward towards its center, so that the eye placed at one end of any supposedly level line could not see the farther half of the line. The location near CDH, the famous museum of modern art with the biggest collection of Russian avant-garde paintings, inspired the idea of five towers with common stylobates as interpretations of canvases by prominent masters of the 1920s--Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexandra Ekster and Liubov Popova. |
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