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.]] In Architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an Entablature and may be plain or — in the Ionic or Corinthian Order — decorated with Bas-relief s. In an astylar wall it lies upon the Architrave ('main beam') and is capped by the Molding s of the Cornice . In interiors, the frieze of a room is the section of wall above the picture rail and under the crown moldings or cornice. By extension, a frieze is a long band of Painted , Sculpted or even Calligraphic decoration in such a position, above eye-level. Frieze decorations may depict scenes in a sequence of discrete panels. In an example of an architectural frieze on the facade of a building, the octagonal Tower Of The Winds in the Roman Agora at Athens bears bas-relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze. A pulvinated frieze (or '''pulvino''') is convex in section. Such friezes were features of 16th-century Northern Mannerism , especially in subsidiary friezes, and much employed in interior architecture and in furniture. This concept has been generalized in the Mathematical construction of Frieze Pattern s. |
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