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Definition of Enframement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enframement
Literary usage of Enframement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard (1917)
"Planting in Relation to Architectural Structures Planting as enframement Often
the designer may judiciously somewhat accent all the effects of his shore ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard, ( (1917)
"enframement on the sides of a landscape composition is the most important,* and
many scenes are satisfactory when only so much enframed. (See Plate 14. ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Designs by Henry Vincent Hubbard, Theodara Kimball Hubbard (1917)
"Planting in - Relation to Architectural Structures Planting as enframement Often
the designer may judiciously somewhat accent all the effects of his shore ..."
4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"Possibly sets of Ionic consoles, or Done “knees”, terminated the upper enframement
at either side above jamb capitals.'6 I reject this possibility because ..."
5. A Text-book of Design by Charles Fabens Kelley, William Luther Mowll (1912)
"145 has an inner enframement similar to that just discussed. The pilasters at
the sides present axes of balance, which distract some attention from the ..."
6. Official Guide to Harvard University by Harvard University, William Garrott Brown, Harvard Memorial Society (1903)
"A full size cast of the doorway of the Temple of Hercules at Cori serves as the
enframement of the large entrance door in this hall. ..."
7. The Art of the Italian Renaissance: A Handbook for Student and Travellers by Heinrich Wölfflin (1903)
"With him it was an obvious assumption that painting must produce the illusion of
a space in the depth of the wall, and that its enframement must suggest the ..."
8. Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII by Edward J. Olszewski (2004)
"The devices often contained paintings, an architectural enframement and numerous
torches, lamps and candles. They were large, filling the apse of San ..."
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