éntasis

Synonyymisanakirja: éntasis

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entasis

puhekieltä A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
1859, Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 7, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NG49AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=%22entasis%22&source=bl&ots=KrV4aHN-ky&sig=uGugK-SnEbD2B7GtZMkwrDb4ZjA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=foJ_UNCtA6X0mAWeyoD4Cw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22entasis%22&f=false page 484,

(quote-text)|title=The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development|page=168|isbn=0-8196-0283-3|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BqahvzeE39YC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=%22entasis%22&source=bl&ots=q44emx28JQ&sig=CUvRmJDVR-JeIB7PHrjvIjC7NQE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=foJ_UNCtA6X0mAWeyoD4Cw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22entasis%22&f=false|passage=The entasis varies in different temples and is not found in some, as, for instance, the temple of Athena Nike and in the east portico of the Erechtheum.
(quote-text)Entasis is also present in Egyptian obelisks and in the vertical fins of the radiator grill of the Rolls-Royce automobile.
2005, Lothar Haselberger, 4: Bending the Truth: Curvature and Other Refinements of the Parthenon, Jenifer Neils (editor), The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gA81kINAI9cC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=%22entases%22&source=bl&ots=4U6rpnsKQU&sig=vyvn6yeY8b0c_mNFFQku0eRWx6A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Da5_UKblLtDrmAW-64DYDw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22entases%22&f=false page 132,

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